Adelostigma

Steetz
Description: 
Erect annual herbs with resin canals. Leaves alternate, linear, entire or denticulate. Capitula disciform, solitary, terminal. Florets : outer florets female, filiform; central florets functionally male, tubular with 5 dark purple longitudinal lines commencing between lobes. Anthers very shortly tailed. Style almost undivided. Cypselas ellipsoid, sparsely hairy with straight hairs. Pappus of free, barbellate bristles in 1 series, each bristle with adpressed teeth.
Distribution: 
Species 2, trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Adelostigma athrixioides Steetz, Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
ASTERACEAE

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