Distribution Map

Helichrysum athrixiifolium

                   
                   
                           
Impopo

Asteraceae Asteroideae Gnaphalieae 

As at April 2024, 29 herbarium specimens, 9 photo records, 2 visual observations

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Southern Africa only
Found within protected areas: Mlawula

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Helichrysum athrixiifolium - (Impopo) Slender erect shrublet, up to 30 cm high. Stems slender, white. Leaves very numerous, spreading, often with leaf-tufts in axils, narrow, tapering slightly to both ends, margins reflexed, lower surface white, upper hairless often with minute projections, up to 1,5 cm long x 3 mm wide. Inflorescence terminal, usually of few compact clusters of few flowerheads which are c 4 mm long; involucral bracts about equalling florets, whitish or slightly tinted buff.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.