Tripteris

Less.
Source: 
SSA
Synonym(s): 
Osteospermum subgen. Tripteris (Less.) Norl.: 263 (1943); Norlindh: 393 (1960).
Description: 
Annual or perennial herbs, subshrubs or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, petiolate to sessile, entire or variously lobed, sometimes with auricles. Capitula radiate, corymbose or solitary. Involucre campanulate or turbinate; bracts imbricate or almost in 2 rows, seldom subequal and nearly in 1 row. Rayflorets female, fertile; corolla yellow to orange. Cypselas 3-winged, with apical fenestrate airchamber, usually homomorphic, sometimes dimorphic with some wingless and rostrate. Discflorets functionally male. Anthers ecalcarate, caudate; endothecial tissue polarised. Style bifid with apical ring of hairs. Pappus 0. x = 8.
Distribution: 
Species +/- 22, south and tropical Africa north to Egypt, Arabian Peninsula and Jordan; 20 in sthn Afr., widespread but absent from Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal.
Classification: 
ASTERACEAE

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