Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Cryptostemma R.Br.: 141 (1813). Microstephium Less.: 92 (1831).
Description:
Perennial herbs, rosulate or stems creeping or decumbent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, lyrate-pinnatifid, rarely undivided, whitish woolly beneath. Capitula radiate, many-flowered, solitary, peduncled, terminal or axillary. Involucre campanulate; bracts in many rows, imbricate, margins scarious. Receptacle flat, honeycombed. Ray florets neuter; corolla yellow, lamina strap-shaped, +/- obovate-oblong, 3-toothed; tube flattened; staminodes sometimes present. Disc florets bisexual; corolla yellow; tube funnel-shaped, with 5 lanceolate lobes sometimes with process at back of apex; ovary +/- obovoid or cylindric. Anthers linear, sagittate at base, with ovate appendage. Style terete, thickened above, sometimes intruse or with collar at base of cylindric portion, 2-fid. Cypselas obovoid, thinly ribbed, densely to laxly villous or occasionally glabrous. Pappus of small hyaline, ciliate scales, or crown of membranous scales, or 0. x = 9.
Distribution:
Species 4, Mozambique and sthn Afr., known from the North-West, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern, Western and Eastern Cape.
Classification:
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