Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Pluchea Cass. in part, Brown: 117 (1909); Phillips: 788 (1951); Wild: 132 (1969a).
Description:
Shrubs up to 2 m high, thinly greyish tomentose. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, sessile, entire, not decurrent, sericeous. Capitula disciform, in loose corymbs. Involucre narrowly cyathiform; involucral bracts in several rows. Receptacle epaleate. Marginalflorets female, in 1 row, filiform, purple. Discflorets bisexual, purple, lobes short, smooth; epidermis cells without needle-like crystals. Anthers minutely calcarate and caudate with branched tails; endothecial tissue polarised; cells of filament collar longer than wide. Style with acute sweeping hairs, not reaching furcation, without star-shaped crystals. Cypselas ellipsoid, hairy; epidermis without crystals. Pappus in 1 row of basally connate, barbellate, capillary bristles.
Distribution:
Monotypic, endemic to sthn Afr.: Pechuel-Loeschea leubnitziae (Kuntze) O.Hoffm., Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and Northern Cape.
Classification:
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