By @knysna_wildflowers
Useful features
Sepals: (petals hidden: sepals are visible) - shape: linear / awl / triangular (most)
bracts: plumose / shield - enlarged petiole / linear
Leaves: open-backed, half open, completely closed, saddle-shaped
colours useful - usually consistent.
Into 4 major sections.
axillary flowers
small group - ID should be easy.
flowers in a terminal head:
- plumose bracts (NW area)
- well formed involucre - solid leaves :: capitula - most common group.
- naked
other groups
- Baviaanskloof and east. :: long flowered pink.
Photographing
Must have flowers
- habit (single-multi, shape and size)
- leaves - shape, angle, hairy, apex and base.
- capitulum from the side
- capitulum top: shape, size, colour.
About 10 potential new species.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&project_id=undescribed-species-and-taxa&taxon_id=185032&verifiable=any
- Phylica rooibergensis
- Phylica witsand
- Phylica prinskraal
- Phylica knersvlakte
- Phylica quaggasberg
- Phylica pillansii
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יוני 7, 2024 04:15 אחה"צ
על ידי
tonyrebelo
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Phylica ericoides: near sea, sepals yellow green, petals invisible - most common along the dunes.
a few with hairy fruit.
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