Observations of a naturalized Gazania population & fruit morphology of a Baccharis species
Private Researcher, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Subject Areas
- Biodiversity, Taxonomy
- Keywords
- Gazania, Gazania linearis, Gazania krebsiana, Baccharis salicifolia, Naturalized, Invasive
- Copyright
- © 2014 Baznekian
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2014. Observations of a naturalized Gazania population & fruit morphology of a Baccharis species. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e252v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.252v1
Abstract
Gazania linearis is reported to be naturalized in California (amongst a host of cultivated Gazania hybrids and species), and the fruits of Baccharis salicifolia ssp. salicifolia are reported to have 5 ribs. By carrying out a morphological study of a naturalized Gazania population, and fruits of a B. s. ssp. salicifolia individual, I was able to conclude that G. linearis may not be the only naturalized Gazania species in the population studied here (and perhaps across California), and that the number of ribs on the fruits of B. s. ssp. salicifolia are not restricted to 5, and in fact, vary in numbers.