Source:
SSA
Description:
Perennial herbs with red-tipped roots. Leaves alternate, serrate or pinnatifid. Capitula radiate, solitary, pedunculate. Involucre hemispherical or campanulate. Receptacle convex or sometimes conical, epaleate. Rayflorets female, fertile; lamina white. Discflorets bisexual, fertile; corolla yellow, 5-lobed; tube basally swollen and spongy in fruit, especially abaxially. Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate; with ovate apical appendage. Style branches narrowly oblong, truncate, penicillate. Cypselas +/- 10-ribbed with vallecular lacunae and vallecular secretory canals as well as vascular strands between ribs, with myxogenic cells along ribs. Pappus a corona or an adaxial auricle, sometimes 0. x = 9 (aneuploids, high polyploidy, B-chromosomes).
Distribution:
Species +/- 33, throughout Europe, 1 species in North Africa, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia; 1 naturalised as weed in sthn Afr.: * Leucanthemum vulgare Lam., Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape.
Classification:
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