Gazania species- Sri Lanka

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Gazania species- Sri Lanka

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Gazania rigens : Confirm ID : Sri Lanka : 120613 : AK-4 :

Kindly confirm if these flowers are Gazania rigens.

Cultivated, garden flowers.

Pictures taken in Sri Lanka on 18/11/2010.

efi page on Gazania rigens

There is a discussion on Gazania & Arctotis in another thread -

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/6_Nef_VKkpA,

also in - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=20705

Thanks for the feedback and links.

I am still confused whether my pictures are Gazania or Arctotis.

Experts kindly help.

It will merely be a guess if i try to id this plant, because i fail to see the involucral bracts, as explained by ... - https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/6_Nef_VKkpA/-I99ZI3SMFcJ

If i am to select one id i would select Gazania linearis, for its linear leaves with acute to acuminate apices, as in - https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/VKCohvfy7wo

Please note : (in addition the key in - https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/6_Nef_VKkpA)

Gazania rigens is a parent of many of the Gazania sold commercially - http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/plant-finder/plant-details/kc/a517/gazania-rigens.aspx
G. rigens is restricted to coastal districts - http://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/03030800-0b07-490a-8d04-0605030c0f01/media/Html/Gazania_linearis.htm

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