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A wild plant by Eugene Marinus, Inaturalist.com.


The red underside of the leafby Eugene Marinus, Inaturalist.com.


Jeanette Loedolff drawing of the caudex from the original publication.

Author: 

Pauline Lesley Perry, 1989

Family: 

ERIOSPERMACEAE*

Origin: 

Western South Africa

Soil: 

Clayish Mix

Water: 

Medium

Sun: 

Medium - Maximum

Thickness: 

2 Centimetres

Height: 

3 Centimetres

Flower: 

Whitish / Green

Propagate: 

Seeds

Names: 

Hedgehog Woolseed

Synonyms: 

-

This member of the Eriospermaceae* family was given this name by Pauline Lesley Perry in 1989. It is found in Nieuwoudtville District; western South Africa, growing in a well drained clayish soil with some water and some to lots of sun. The caudex can grow to two centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to three centimetres in height. The flowers are whitish with a greenish nerve in the middle.
The single leaf is bearing numerous short, straight, cylindrical green enations approximately one millimetre high, the apex of each bearing a tuft of transparent hairs; margin with scattered transparent hairs. The underside is reddish. It occurs after the flowers.

The genera name from Greek; erion; 'woll' and Greek sperma; 'seed'. The species name after the woolly leaves.

*)Accordantly to the latest taxonomic system; APG IV 2016, Eriospermaceae is now part of the Asparagaceae.

This is a winter-grower.


Two plants by Cok Grootscholten.


Jeanette Loedolff drawing from the original publication.