Youngia

Cass.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Annual or perennial herbs with milky latex. Leaves radical or alternate, entire, coarsely toothed or pinnatifid. Capitula ligulate, corymbose or rarely racemose. Involucre narrowly campanulate or subcylindric; bracts in 2 unequal rows, outer few and short, inner lanceolate. Receptacle epaleate. Florets strap-shaped; corolla yellow. Anthers sagittate at base, acute or shortly setaceous-acuminate. Style branches long, slender, sweeping hairs present. Cypselas narrowly oblong-terete to fusiform, apically slightly attenuate, somewhat compressed, many-ribbed, usually with 5 main ribs, glabrous. Pappus of scabrid-barbellate bristles. x = 5, 8 (4, 6, 9) (polyploidy).
Distribution: 
Species +/- 30, Asia; *Youngia japonica (L.) DC., introduced, has become a weed on the coast and in the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal.
Classification: 
ASTERACEAE

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