Species Platycarpha carlinoides (River cabbage)

Biological classification:
  • kingdom: Plantae
  • - phylum: Tracheophyta
  • -- class: Magnoliopsida
  • --- order: Asterales
  • ---- family: Asteraceae
  • ----- species: Platycarpha carlinoides
Characteristics:plant with cone-shaped tap root, ring of basal incised leaves, two or three floral whorls with bright purple flowers in the middle, grows in riverbeds of the Kalahari
Countries:
BW
Botswana
NA
Namibia
ZA
South Africa
Ecoregions:
AT1309
Kalahari xeric savanna
Links:
References:Van der Walt and le Riche 1999: 106; Van Rooyen et al. 2001: 194
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