Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Rhynchocarpus Less., name illegitimate.
Description:
Annual herbs. Leaves alternate or sometimes opposite, straight, adaxially concave, tomentose, glandular-hairy; margin entire. Capitula radiate, solitary, sessile or pedunculate. Involucral bracts with lanceolate laminas. Receptacle flat to convex, paleate; paleae lanceolate with two lateral teeth. Ray florets female, yellow with purple bands dorsally, in one row, fewer than disc florets; cypselas and pappus as in disc florets. Disc florets bisexual, yellow, often with robust multicellular trichomes. Anthers ecalcarate, with short tails; endothecial tissue polarised; apical appendage acute. Style branches truncate with obtuse sweeping hairs apically. Cypselas narrowly elliptic with three vascular bundles, densely hairy with elongated, apically coiled twin hairs. Pappus a crown of +/- free scales.
Distribution:
Species 2: Rhynchopsidium pumilum (L.f.) DC. and R. sessiliflorum (L.f.) DC., endemic to Northern and Western Cape.
Classification:
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