Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Doria Less., Harvey: 320 (1865).
Description:
Shrublets or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire to serrate, sometimes decurrent, fleshy, glabrous. Capitula radiate or disciform, several-flowered, paniculate-corymbose or solitary, pedunculate to sessile. Involucre ecalyculate, campanulate to tubular; bracts in 1 row, usually connate below. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Marginal and rayflorets female, fertile; corolla yellow, shorter than ovary, faintly toothed or with short lamina or with linear-oblong, 3-toothed lamina +/- as long as tube. Discflorets functionally male; corolla yellow, tubular, widened above, ribbed, glabrous, with 5 ovate lobes. Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate or faintly sagittate at base; with ovate, apical appendage; endothecial tissue radial. Style terete, divided, with oblong-linear, obtuse or truncate branches. Cypselas ellipsoid-oblong, mostly densely pubescent. Pappus of many delicate bristles. x = 10.
Distribution:
Species +/- 10, Africa and Southwest Asia; 5 in sthn Afr., widespread but absent from Botswana, Northern Province, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal.
Classification:
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