Gyrodoma

Wild
Description: 
Annual herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatifid. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, solitary, pedunculate. Involucre broadly campanulate to patelliform; bracts +/-in 2 series. Receptacle hemispheric-conic, nude. Florets : ray florets female, in 1 series, white or pale blue; disc florets bisexual, many, yellow. Anthers appendiculate at apex. Style branches flattened with appendages broadly triangular to ovate and rounded or obtuse at apex. Cypselas obovoid, slightly compressed, pubescent. Pappus of minute scales.
Distribution: 
Monotypic: Gyrodoma hispida (Vatke) Wild, only recorded from Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
ASTERACEAE

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