Helichrysum foetidum

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Helichrysum

[Annuals , biennials, perennials ,] subshrubs , or shrubs (often aromatic ), mostly 20-80 cm; taprooted. Stems usually 1, usually erect , sometimes decumbent to procumbent (± woolly-tomentose, usually stipitate- or sessile-glandular as well) . Leaves cauline; alternate; petiolate [sessile]; blades ovate [spatulate to lanceolate or linear ], bases cuneate to truncate [usually clasping and/or decurrent], margins entire (sometimes revolute ), faces concolor [bicolor], usually gray to white and tomentose or sericeous [adaxial sometimes greenish and glabrescent ], sometimes stipitate- or sessile-glandular as well. Heads disciform or discoid , in glomerules in corymbiform arrays. Involucres campanulate , 4-8 mm. Phyllaries in 3-5[-7] series, whitish [stramineous , orange, reddish, or pinkish] (opaque or hyaline , usually shiny; stereomes green, usually sessile-glandular distally) . Receptacles flat, glabrous , epaleate. Peripheral (pistillate ) florets 0 or 1-2 (fewer than bisexual ) : corollas yellowish. Inner (bisexual) florets 3-30[-50+]; corollas usually yellowish. Cypselae ± columnar , faces usually smooth , sometimes papillate (roughened by raised, imbricate tips of epidermal cells ), sometimes with 4-6 longitudinal ridges , glabrous [± strigose or myxogenic, papilliform hairs ]; pappi readily falling, of 12-20 distinct or loosely coherent basally, barbellate [subplumose] bristles in 1 series. x = 7.

Species about 600: introduced ; mostly Old World, especially s Africa and Madagascar.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,625 meters (0 to 5,331 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: African Flowering Plants Database . GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:01CB4A7F-5443-4DBB-BC74-AD763B30EE1D

Similar Species

Members of the genus Helichrysum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 47 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

H. adenophorum (Branched Everlasting) · H. angustifolium (Curry Plant) · H. angustifolium 'Nana' (Curry Plant) · H. arenarium (Everlasting Flower) · H. argyrophyllum (Golden Guinea Flower) · H. bellidioides (New Zealand Strawflower) · H. bracteatum (Bracted Strawflower) · H. bracteatum 'Pink Glow' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Salsa' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Silvery Rose' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Bronze' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Flame' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Golden Beauty' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Golden Yellow' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Pink' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze White' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Yellow' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Tall Double Mix' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Victorian Blush' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Wallaby Flame' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. elatum (Irontree) · H. foetidum (Stinking Ever-Lasting) · H. fontanesii (Everlasting) · H. formosissimum (Everlasting-Flower) · H. heldreichii (Helichrysum) · H. italicum italicum (Curry Plant) · H. leucopsideum (Satin Everlasting) · H. melitense (Maltese Everlasting) · H. milfordiae (Alpine Everlasting) · H. petiolare (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Lemon' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Licorice Splash' (Variegated Licorice Plant) · H. petiolare 'Limelight' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Petite' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Splash' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Variegata' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'White Licorice' (Helichrysum) · H. roseum 'Pierrot' (Crisp Everlasting) · H. rutidolepis (Pale Everlasting) · H. scorpioides (Button Everlasting) · H. stoechas (Curry Plant) · H. thianschanicum 'Icicle' (Helichrysum) · H. 'Dreamtime Jumbo White' (White Strawflower) · H. 'Dreamtime Jumbo Yellow' (Yellow Strawflower) · H. 'Ruby Cluster' (Straw Flower) · H. 'Silver Mist' (Dwarf Licorice Plant) · H. 'Sulphur Light' (Sulphur Light Perennial Strawflower)

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Further Reading

• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. url p. 379.
• Memoirs of the American Entomological Society. Philadelphia, American Entomological Society, 1916- url p. 105, p. 125, p. 128, p. 137.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. 2 1874 London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 113.
• The Pliocene floras of the Dutch-Prussian border, 's-Gravenhage, M. Nijhoff, 1915. url , .
• The grasses and grasslands of South Africa, Pietermaritzburg, P. David & Sons, Ltd., Printers, 1918. url , .
• West African forests and forestry / London: T.F. Unwin, ltd., [1920] url .
• Wissenschaftliche ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Africa-Expedition, 1907-1908: unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1910- url p. 418, p. 619, p. 627.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 28, 2007:

• GBIF-Spain, Botánica, Universidad de León: LEB-Cormo
• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2659587
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-35
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13752378
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:212755-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 38769
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDAST4P020
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: HEFO4
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 42374

Footnotes

1. Guy L. Nesom "Helichrysum". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 59, 384, 387, 425. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 1,002.460 meters (3,288.911 feet), Standard Deviation = 665.030 based on 50 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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