- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
- ›Sunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies
- ›Asteroideae
- ›paper daisies
- ›cudweeds, everlastings, and pussytoes
- ›Metalasia
Beautiful Blombush
Metalasia pulchella
Metalasia pulchella is a flowering shrub belonging to the Asteraceae family. The species is endemic to South Africa and occurs in the Western Cape in the Cape Peninsula and the Cape Flats. It has a range of 244 km² and there are ten to fifteen populations remaining. The remaining populations outside the protected areas are declining due to urban development, invasive plants and wildfires. The plant is part of the fynbos and grows at altitudes of...
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Metalasia pulchella in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 589941.