Source:
SSA
Description:
Annual, compact, prostrate herbs, very free-flowering. Leaves irregularly subternately dissected. Flowers in umbels from base and apex of branches; involucres foliaceous. Calyx with short, ovate teeth. Petals ovate with short, inflexed apex, keeled on face, channelled on back. Disc slightly raised, with somewhat undulate margin. Stamens as long as petals; filaments filiform; anthers oblong. Ovary villous; styles distinct, somewhat linear. Fruit circular, somewhat biconvex, crowned with persistent disc and styles, covered with long, stiff, club-shaped hairs mixed with thin hairs; mericarps not separating, convex on back, flat on face, with median rib; oil ducts 9-13, forming separate pockets in wing; carpophore bipartite. Seeds linear in cross section.
Distribution:
Species 1, sthn Afr.: Choritaenia capensis Benth., widespread in the central and northeastern parts.
Classification:
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