Anisochaeta

DC.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Scandent shrubs, sometimes wide-climbing. Leaves alternate, petiolate, broadly ovate, coarsely incised-dentate to repand. Capitula discoid, pedunculate, small, in divaricately branched panicles. Involucre campanulate; bracts in 5 rows, imbricate; stereome undivided. Receptacle epaleate, honeycombed. Discflorets bisexual, fertile; corolla white or creamy white, tubular below with 5 long, narrow lobes equalling tube. Anthers calcarate, caudate, with lanceolate, apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised. Style branches obtuse, dorsally with obtuse sweeping hairs not reaching furcation; stigmatic surfaces basally separated but apically confluent. Cypselas 4- or 5-angled, glandular. Pappus of elongated scale-like awns.
Distribution: 
Monotypic: Anisochaeta mikanioides DC., endemic to sthn Afr., KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape.
Classification: 

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