| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Plantae
- - phylum: Tracheophyta
- -- class: Magnoliopsida
- --- order: Asterales
- ---- family: Asteraceae
- ----- species: Geigeria pectidea
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| Characteristics: | small bush, 10 – 30cm tall, flowers grouped in small compact heads, outer flowers unisexual (female) and inner flowers bisexual, grows in riverbeds, causes paralysis of the oesophagus, pneumonia and vomiting when eaten by sheep |
| Countries: | - BW
- Botswana
- NA
- Namibia
- ZA
- South Africa
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| Ecoregions: | - AT1309
- Kalahari xeric savanna
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| References: | Van der Walt and le Riche 1999: 84; Burke 2007: 92 |
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