Source:
SSA
Description:
Annual or perennial, acaulescent herbs with milky latex; with deep taproot; stems solitary or few, often branched. Leaves mostly radical, entire, toothed or pinnatifid. Capitula ligulate, solitary or several in sparingly branched, corymbose panicles. Involucre oblong-cylindrical or campanulate; bracts in several rows. Receptacle paleate; paleae linear, acuminate. Florets bisexual; corolla yellow or white, strap-shaped. Anthers with base sagittate, auricles mucronate-acuminate. Style branches long, obtuse, sweeping hairs short. Cypselas spindle-shaped, at least inner ones beaked, tuberculate, ribbed. Pappus of plumose bristles, in 1 or 2 rows. x = 4, 5 (3, 6, 7, 8, 11) (high polyploidy, B-chromosomes).
Distribution:
Species +/- 50, Europe, Asia, North Africa, South America; 4 in sthn Afr., not known from Namibia and Botswana.
Classification:
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