Asteraceae
Helichrysum

Helichrysum kalandanum Lisowski

First published in Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 56: 353 (1986)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is DR Congo to Tanzania.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/158073/759682

Conservation
NT - near threatened
[IUCN]

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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Perennial herb with annual shoots from a woody rootstock; stems 30–75 cm (?–1.2 m) high, pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves sessile, (ob-)lanceolate, those on the lower part of the stem large, those on the distal half of the stem rapidly changing to short and more narrow, 4–20 cm long, 0.4–6 cm wide, base clasping, margins entire, apex abruptly mucronate, subglabrous with some hairs on the margins, with impressed glands.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
Capitula 6–8 mm long, homogamous, in dense subglobose glomerules forming tight to lax leafy secondary corymbs; stalks of individual capitula 1–5 mm long; phyllaries yellow, ovate to lanceolate, 2–6 mm long, acute, glabrous or (the outermost) sparsely hairy; receptacle fimbriate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
Florets 13–19, all hermaphrodite, tube cylindric or narrowly infundibuliform, 2.8–3.2 mm long, lobes 0.7–0.8 mm long, glandular, anthers 1.9–2 mm long, style 3.3–4 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Achenes cylindric, 1.2–1.4 mm long, densely glandular-pilose; pappus white, 3–3.5 mm long, falling in groups.
Habitat
Montane grassland; 1350–2400 m
Distribution
T7
[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/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/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