Source:
SSA
Description:
Annual herbs. Leaves alternate, linear, sessile, mucronate, woolly hairy (hair type B) and glandular-hairy, margin flat, dentate. Capitula disciform, few together in small clusters. Involucralbracts in few rows, cartilaginous, woolly hairy; stereome divided. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Femaleflorets yellow, filiform, in several rows, more than disc florets. Discflorets bisexual; corolla yellow, tubular; lobes erect. Anthers ecalcarate, caudate; endothecial tissue polarised; apical appendage flat, narrower than thecae. Style bifid; style branches truncate with apical tuft of obtuse sweeping hairs; stigmatic surface separated. Cypselas basally sparsely hairy with elongated, not myxogenic twin hairs, glandular-hairy; epidermis smooth. Pappus of few free, barbellate, capillary bristles in 1 row with outer row of narrow, fused scales; basally without patent cilia.
Distribution:
Monotypic: Artemisiopsis villosa (O.Hoffm.) Schweick.; tropical and sthn Afr., Namibia, Botswana and Northern Province.
Classification:
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