Berkheya fruticosa (L.) Ehrh.

 

Berkheya fruticosa (Afrikaans: vaaldissel, "pale pole") is a plant native to the Succulent Karoo of Namibia and South Africa.

 

It is a perennial meso-chamaephyte that grows 15–25 cm high. It has prickly leaves and grows dark yellow aster flowers.

Berkheya fruticosa - Wikipedia

Morphology

Shrublet or shrub, up to 1.5 m tall, branches white-felted when young. Leaves alternate, petiolate, base of petiole with spiny auricles, elliptic, mostly 20-50 mm long, toothed and spine-tipped, with spines 1-4 mm long, discolorous, upper surface thinly felted or glabrous and shining, lower surface white-felted. Flowerheads 1-few in corymbs, radiate, yellow, 35-50 mm diam.; involucral bracts linear-lanceolate with spiny margins and tip, 10-20 mm long. Pappus scales 10 + 10, lanceolate or oblanceolate, denticulate, 1-2 mm long.

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Grey-woolly shrub to 1.5 m. Leaves elliptic, discolorous, slightly toothed and spiny. Flower heads radiate, 1-few in terminal corymbs, yellow.

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Berkheya fruticosa Ehrh. (worldfloraonline.org)

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