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Genus: Lasiospermum

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The four species are all native to southern Africa but one of these has also been recorded from Egypt.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).

Lasiospermum bipinnatum

Gifknoppies [Afrikaans]; isiFikane [Xhosa]

See Eastern Cape wild flowers by John Manning, Auriol Batten & Hertha Bokelmann p. 284.

Lasiospermum brachyglossum 

Knoppiesopslag [Afrikaans]

See Namaqualand wildflowers (revised ed.) by Annelise le Roux & Ted Schelpe p. 166.

  

Lasiospermum erectum

[= Lasiospermum pedunculare]

Gansgras [Afrikaans]

See Cederberg wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 216.

  

Lasiospermum pedunculare 

Basterknoppies [Afrikaans]

See Nieuwoudtville wildflowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 172.

Publications

  • Müller, M.A.N. 1988. 'n Morfologiese en taksonomiese studie van die genusse Lasiospermum Lag. en Eriocephalus L. (Asteraceae) in suidelike Afrika. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch.