Lasiopogon volkii
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Full name: | Lasiopogon volkii (B.Nord.) Hilliard |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Gnaphalium volkii B.Nord. |
| Status: | Endemic |
| Description: | Annual herb forming small woolly mats, stems few to many from the crown, 10-80 mm long, filiform, simple or branched, prostrate or decumbent, cobwebby-woolly, nude below or distantly leafy but closely leafy under the heads. Leaves mostly 3-8 x 1-1.5 mm, smallest under the heads, spathulate, obtuse, base narrowed, both surfaces loosely greyish-white woolly. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, c. 3 x 2 mm, each closely surrounded by leaves, then massed in woolly glomerules 5-10 mm across at the branchlet tips. Involucral bracts biseriate, subequal, slightly exceeding flowers, tips pellucid, very obtuse, often emarginate, colourless, whitish or palest straw-colour, rotate when achenes shed. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 17-28, 5-15 ('female'), 10-16 ('bisexual'), ('female') and ('bisexual') equal or subequal, or up to three times as many as ('bisexual') as ('female'), or rarely slightly more ('female') than ('bisexual'), whitish, sometimes tipped reddish. Achenes 0.5 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles weakly plumose in upper third or half, terminating in a small tuft of clavate cilia, delicate patent cilia at base, cohering lightly. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) Annual herb forming small, woolly mats up to 10 cm in diameter. Recorded from southern Namibia, where it is found on flats and hills. Flowering recorded from February to September. (from www.biodiversityexplorer.org website) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 04 Jul 2012 |
| Camera make: | Panasonic |
| Camera model: | DMC-FZ45 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/125 s |
| ISO speed: | 80 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
