Syncarpha
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Syncarpha | |
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Syncarpha vestita | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Tribe: | Gnaphalieae |
Genus: | Syncarpha DC. |
Synonyms | |
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Syncarpha is a genus of some 28 species of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae. The flowers are known by the common name: Everlastings. The genus is endemic to the fynbos of the Eastern and Western Cape in South Africa.[1]
Species
Syncarpha species include:
- Syncarpha argentea (Silver Everlasting)
- Syncarpha argyropsis (= Helipterum argyropsis) (White everlasting)
- Syncarpha canescens (Pink everlasting)
- Syncarpha chlorochrysum (Gold everlasting)
- Syncarpha eximia (Strawberry everlasting)
- Syncarpha gnaphaloides (Vlaktetee)
- Syncarpha paniculata
- Syncarpha speciosissima (Cape everlasting)
- Syncarpha vestita (Cape snow)
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References
- ↑ Manning, John (2008), Field Guide to Fynbos (2nd ed.), Cape Town: Struik Publishers, ISBN 978-1-77007-265-7, OCLC 191891070
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