Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs, glandular pilose on young parts. Leaves alternate, petiolate or sessile, digitately lobed, cordate at base, pubescent when young. Capitula discoid or radiate, solitary, pedunculate, sometimes 2 together or corymbose. Involucre campanulate; bracts in 7 rows, linear, acute, scarious, glabrous; stereome undivided. Receptacle flat, honeycombed, epaleate. Rayflorets, when present, female, whitish or yellow, pistillate, in 1 row; staminodia 0. Discflorets bisexual, fertile; corolla yellow, tube cylindric, glabrous, with 5 small, lanceolate lobes; lobes strongly retrofracted. Anthers ecalcarate, caudate; with lanceolate, apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised. Style bifid; style branches obtuse with obtuse sweeping hairs not reaching furcation; stigmatic surface basally separated but apically confluent. Cypselas sparsely hairy with elongated twin hairs and glandular hairs. Pappus of few, free, barbellate bristles in 1 row and outer row of short, triangular scales.
Distribution:
Species 4, endemic to sthn Afr.; Namibia, Mpumalanga, Northern and Western Cape.
Classification:
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