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(Last Modified On 6/20/2013)
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(Last Modified On 6/20/2013)
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Species
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Gerbera jamesonii Bolus
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PlaceOfPublication
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ard. Chron., ser. 3, 5: 772, fig. 122. June 1889.
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Note
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TYPE: a cultivated plant in the alpine house of Kew Gardens, seeds originally sent from Natal (not seen).
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Description
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Robust, perennial, rosette herb ca. 40 cm tall arising from a sericeous caudex. Basal leaves lyrately parted, the segments irregularly dentate, to 17 cm long and 4 cm wide, petiolate, the upper and lower surfaces with scattered strigose trichomes, petiole ca. 1/2 the length of the leaf. Inflorescence a monocephalous scape, stout, ebracteate with scattered strigose hairs and narrowing slightly under the head. Heads radiate, ca. 3 cm wide and 5 cm long; involucre of 2-3 series of lanceolate, entire, acute bracts, the outer series setose on the back, the inner series slightly scarious along the margins and glabrate; receptacle convex, naked; outer florets female, the corollas ca. 25 mm long with a 3-dentate, strap-shaped ligule ca. 10 mm long and 2 filiform, shorter, inner segments, the ligules yellow on the underside, orange above; disc florets perfect, the corollas bilabiate, ca. 10 mm long, the outer lip entire or irregularly dentate, recurved, the inner lip of two slightly shorter, filiform segments, orange-yellow, glabrous. Achenes fusiform, truncate when immature but with a very short beak when mature, ribbed, light brown, covered with strigose trichomes: pappus of copious, blond, setose bristles.
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Habit
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herb
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Note
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Gerbera jamesonii is a native of Africa and is widely cultivated. In Panama it is cultivated and apparently has not escaped into the wild. It rarely fruits in cultivation.
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Native
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Africa
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUf: Cultivated in a nursery in Boquete, 3600 ft, D'Arcy & D'Arcy 6511 (MO).
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