Oligocarpus

Less.
Source: 
SSA
Synonym(s): 
Osteospermum sect. Oligocarpus (Less.) Norl.: 346 (1943). Xenismia DC.: 509 (1836a).
Description: 
Annual, glandular-puberulous herbs. Leaves alternate, petiolate to sessile, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, entire or shallowly lobed or toothed. Capitula radiate, small, solitary. Involucre campanulate or hemispherical with subequal bracts +/- in 1 row. Rayflorets female, fertile; lamina short, yellow. Style shallowly bilobed with apical ring of hairs. Cypselas polymorphic, slightly curved and wingless, or straight and 3-winged, or rostrate and wingless, with or without apical cavity, smooth or rugose-aculeate. Discflorets functionally male, yellow. Anthers ecalcarate and caudate; endothecial tissue polarised. Pappus 0.
Distribution: 
Monotypic, endemic to sthn Afr.: Oligocarpus calendulaceus (L.f.) Less., KwaZulu-Natal, Northern, Western and Eastern Cape.
Classification: 
ASTERACEAE

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