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Pteronia pallens
Pteronia pallens ("Scholtzbos" or "Aasvoëlbos / Witbas") is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family, indigenous to the Karoo regions of South Africa. Its natural habitat is dry, rocky slopes. It often cooccurs with its close relatives, Pteronia paniculata or Pteronia incana.
From the article Pteronia pallens on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
A small shrub with pale woody stem. The leaves are slender, blunt-ended, channeled and green. One to three rounded, discoid flower heads appear at the tips of the branches. This helps to distinguish it from the otherwise similar species Pteronia paniculata.
Range & habitat
This species occurs in the western Little Karoo, the western Great Karoo and into the Northern Cape Province. It usually grows on lower slopes on silt or sand that is often calciferous (often overlying calcrete).
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 524362.