Citation: DC., Prod. 6:72 (1837).

Synonymy: D. aurantiaca Hort.

Common name: Namaqualand daisy, Cape marigold.

Description:
Annual herb to 25 cm high; stems ascending, simple or few-branched, sparsely pubescent, striate; leaves sessile, oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed at the base, 2-6 cm long, 4-20 mm wide, decreasing in size up the stem, sparsely pubescent, with a distinct mid-vein; margins sinuate-dentate.

Peduncles robust, becoming dilated below the capitulum, 3-9 cm long, sparsely pubescent; involucre c. 10 mm long; bracts 15-25, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, imbricate, sparsely glandular-pubescent; ray florets 15-25; ligules 2-3 cm long, bright-orange, purplish at the base.

Ray achenes tuberculate, 4-5 mm long, pale-brown; disk florets numerous; corolla orange or with purplish lobes; disk achenes surrounded by a suborbicular emarginate wing, 6-7 mm long, pale-brown.

Published illustration: Graf (1982) Exotica series 4:811.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, NL.   Native to South Africa. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Sept.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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