OTHONNA LEPIDOCAULIS

This member of the Asteraceae family was given this name by Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter in 1899. It is found in Northern Cape; southern South Africa, growing in a well drained soil with some water and some sun. The caudex can grow to seven centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to 23 centimetres in height. The flowers are yellow. The genera name from the Greek othone, 'a linen cloth or napkin', in allusion to the downy covering of some of the earlier known species. The species name from the Greek word lepis or lepidos, 'scale', and the Latin word caulis, 'stem'; for the scaly stem. This is a winter-grower.