Syngonanthus chrysanthus

Syngonanthus chrysanthus

Syngonanthus chrysanthus is a flowering plant in the family of Eriocaulaceae. Known as an ornamental plant is the cultivar ' Mikado '. The species is native to Brazil and Uruguay.

Description

Syngonanthus chrysanthus grows as an evergreen, perennial herbaceous plant. The stalk is very short. The leaves are grass -like upright to the floor spread -fitting. The at a length of 2 to 5.5 inches and a width centered around 1 millimeter narrow leaf blades are flat - linealischen, furnished with short and weak, and when they are dry, more or less olive-green color.

The rare individual, usually many Blütenstandsschäfte are fixed, five-to sechsrippig and 12 to 25 inches high. The olive-colored, short- hairy leaf sheaths are obliquely cut, ripped and 3 to 4.5 inches long. The hemispherical capitula -shaped inflorescence is hard and hairless, at the end of brownish- yellow and 5-7 mm wide.

Dissemination

The distribution area includes the Brazilian states of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, and Uruguay in the departments of Canelones, Maldonado and Montevideo.

System

The first description of this kind was made in 1831 by August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard under the name Eriocaulon chrysanthum. 1903 placed Wilhelm Otto Eugen Ruhland type Then in the genus Syngonanthus.

Evidence

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