Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Pentzia Thunb.: 145 (1800), in part excluding type.
Description:
Pubescent annual herbs. Leaves alternate, variously pinnatisect. Capitula discoid, solitary, pedunculate. Involucre hemispherical; bracts in 3-5 rows, very narrow and acute, without scarious margins, often with central resin canal. Receptacle convex or conical, epaleate. Discflorets bisexual; corolla generally 5- but occasionally 4-lobed; tube almost cylindrical; limb urceolate and partly enervate. Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate. Style branches with resin ducts. Cypselas white when mature, with 2 lateral and 1 adaxial rib, myxogenic on ribs and abaxial surface, and with short-stalked glands in grooves between ribs; pericarp containing large number of druses, several cell-layers thick in ribs, but abaxially thin. Pappus an entire corona, covered with myxogenic cells.
Distribution:
Species 2, endemic to sthn Afr.: Myxopappus acutilobus (DC.) Kallersjo and M. hereroensis (O.Hoffm.) Kallersjo, Namibia and Namaqualand (Northern Cape).
Classification:
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