Asteraceae
Helichrysum

Helichrysum citrispinum Delile

First published in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 20: 93 (1843)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Ethiopia.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005

Morphology General Habit
Shrub or shrubby herb 15–120 cm high, its outline often rounded; stems armed with reddish spines to 1.5 cm long or unarmed, distally densely branching, thin-tomentose and densely leafy.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves grey-green, spreading, erect and overlapping, or clustered in tight little rosettes, sessile, linear or narrowly lanceolate, 3–10 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, base slightly clasping, margins revolute, apex obtuse, densely tomentose on both surfaces.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
Capitula 10–18 mm long, homogamous, solitary and terminal, but seeming to form a corymb through the dense branching; stalks of individual capitula very short; phyllaries shiny white or cream, multiseriate, spreading, lanceolate or elliptic, 4–14 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, subacute, proximally with short black hairs; receptacle honeycombed.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
Florets yellow, all hermaphrodite, 30–130, tube cylindrical or narrowly infundibuliform, 2–3 mm long, lobes 0.2–0.5 mm long with short black hairs, anthers ± 2 mm long, style 2.5–3.5 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Achenes cylindrical, 0.6–0.8 mm long, glabrous or pilose; pappus white, 3–4 mm long.
[FTEA]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0