Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs or shrublets, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate, ericoid, sometimes clustered, entire or lobed. Capitula radiate, terminal, solitary, rarely corymbose, shortly pedunculate or subsessile. Involucre campanulate to subglobose; bracts in 3-5 rows, outer sometimes with 2-5 glands on back near apex, inner ciliate near apex, sometimes all with broad, membranous apex. Receptacle flat or convex, rarely conical, paleate or sometimes epaleate; paleae longer than disc florets, linear, sometimes with bent, apical appendage. Rayflorets female, fertile; corolla white, tube with oblong to linear, 3-toothed lamina 2-4 times as long as tube, glandular. Discflorets bisexual, fertile; corolla tube sometimes campanulate above, with 5 ovate lobes. Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate, with linear, apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised. Style linear, with linear, truncate branches. Cypselas 10-12-ribbed, rarely up to 18-ribbed, minutely papillose especially on ribs, with apical rim. Pappus 0.
Distribution:
Species 6, endemic to sthn Afr., Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Western and Eastern Cape.
Classification:
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