Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Marcellia Baill.: 625 (1886) not of Choisy; Baker & Clarke: 49 (1909) in part. Sericocoma Fenzl subgen. Newtonia Schinz: 183 (1895).
Description:
Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves opposite or sometimes alternate, linear to oblong, entire. Inflorescences terminal, elongated, dense spiciform thyrses, bracteate; bracts subtending 2 bisexual flowers flattened at their point of contact and 2 modified lateral sterile flowers formed of long hairs and pilose spines. Tepals 5, oblong to linear, pilose. Stamens 5, free; filaments narrow, monadelphous at base; pseudostaminodes 0; anthers 2-thecous. Ovary woolly; ovule solitary, pendulous, basal; style columnar; stigma small, capitate with a tuft of purplish hairs. Capsule thin-walled, indehiscent. Seed orbicular, flattened.
Distribution:
Species 3, confined to Namibia.
Classification:
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