Aerva leucura
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Full name: | Aerva leucura Moq. |
| Location: | Naukluft (2416AC) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Aambeibossie |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Aerva ambigua Moq. Aerva edulis Suess. Aerva leucura Moq. var. lanatoides Suess. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Aerva leucura is an herb, usually erect, which can measure more than one meter in height. The leaves are alternate, elongated, reaching 10 x 3 cm. The small flowers are spikes. (from www.planetefleurs.fr, translated from French by Google Translate) Perennial herb, often erect and straggling up to 1 m tall, occasionally prostrate. Stems and branches more or less densely whitish woolly. Leaves alternate, broadly elliptic to linear-oblanceolate, 1.6-10 cm long, more or less thinly hairy on both surfaces; petiole up to 1.5 cm long. Inflorescences variable, always with a terminal head of multiple pedunculate or sessile spikes but also with similar axillary heads or simple spikes. Spikes 0.6-5 cm long, densely white woolly. flowers greenish with yellowish stamens. (from Flora of the Caprivi 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: | 02 Apr 2015 |
| Camera make: | PENTAX |
| Camera model: | PENTAX K-x |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/400 s |
| ISO speed: | 100 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
