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Genus: Ursinia

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About 40 species, native to southern Africa and Ethiopia. 

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa (POSA) - an online checklist (SANBI).

Ursinia abrotanifolia

 

Ursinia alpina

 

Ursinia anethoides

 

Ursinia anthemoides 

Bergmagriet [Afrikaans]

See Nieuwoudtville wildflowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 190; West Coast wild flowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 218; Cederberg wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 230.

Ursinia brachyloba

 

Ursinia cakilefolia

Glansoogbergmagriet [Afrikaans]

See Namaqualand wildflowers (revised ed.) by Annelise le Roux & Ted Schelpe p. 190; Nieuwoudtville wildflowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 190; Cederberg wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 230.

Link: Ursinia cakilefolia (PlantzAfrica.com)

Ursinia caledonica

 

Ursinia calenduliflora

Berggousblom [Afrikaans]

See Namaqualand wildflowers (revised ed.) by Annelise le Roux & Ted Schelpe p. 190.

Ursinia chrysanthemoides

Bergmagriet [Afrikaans]

See Cederberg wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 230.

Ursinia coronopifolia

 

Ursinia dentata

 

Ursinia discolor

 

Ursinia dregeana

 

Ursinia eckloniana

See Hottentots Holland to Hermanus wild flowers by Lee Burman & Anne Bean p. 188.

Ursinia filipes

 

Ursinia frutescens

 

Ursinia heterodonta

 

Ursinia hispida

 

Ursinia macropoda

 

Ursinia merxmuelleri

 

Ursinia montana

 

Ursinia nana

Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 108; Namaqualand wildflowers (revised ed.) by Annelise le Roux & Ted Schelpe p. 190; Nieuwoudtville wildflowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 190; Karoo wildflowers by David Shearing & Katryn van Heerden p. 170.

Ursinia nudicaulis

See Cederberg wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 230

Ursinia oreogena

 

Ursinia paleacea

Geelmagriet [Afrikaans]

See Hottentots Holland to Hermanus wild flowers by Lee Burman & Anne Bean p. 188; Southern Overberg wild flowers by Penny Mustart et al. p. 250.

Ursinia pilifera 

Grootbergmagriet, Fynkruie [Afrikaans]

See Nieuwoudtville wildflowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 188; Cederberg wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 230.

Ursinia pinnata

 

Ursinia punctata

 

Ursinia pygmaea

 

Ursinia quinquepartita

See Hottentots Holland to Hermanus wild flowers by Lee Burman & Anne Bean p. 188.

Ursinia rigidula

 

Ursinia saxatilis

 

Ursinia scariosa

 

Ursinia sericea

Bergmagriet [Afrikaans]

Occurs in fynbos and succulent karoo on upper sandstone slopes from Namaqualand (Northern Cape) to the Swartberg Mountains (Western Cape).

Ursinia serrata

 

Ursinia speciosa

See Namaqualand wildflowers (revised ed.) by Annelise le Roux & Ted Schelpe p. 190.

Ursinia subflosculosa

 

Ursinia tenuifolia

 

Ursinia tenuiloba 

umuthi wezifuba [Zulu]

See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 332.

Ursinia trifida

 

Publications

  • Prassler, M. 1967. Revision der gattung Ursinia. Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung München 6: 363-478.