Pentanema

Cass.
Source: 
SSA
Synonym(s): 
Vicoa Cass.: 418 (1829b); Bentham: 334 (1873a); Oliver & Hiern: 361 (1877).
Description: 
Annual herbs. Leaves alternate, oblong to lanceolate, entire or toothed, often villose. Capitula radiate, pedunculate, solitary. Involucralbracts in many rows, narrow, imbricate, +/- scarious, finely pointed. Receptacle epaleate. Rayflorets female; corolla yellow, strap-shaped, 3-toothed. Discflorets bisexual; corolla yellow, tubular, 5-toothed. Anthers ecalcarate, caudate, with branched tails; endothecial tissue radial. Style with acute sweeping hairs, not reaching furcation. Cypselas ellipsoid. Pappus of barbellate bristles in 1 row. x = 9 (10, 17-1 report) (polyploidy).
Distribution: 
Species +/- 18, Asia, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Africa; 1 naturalised in sthn Afr.: * Pentanema indicum (L.) Y.Ling, North-West.
Classification: 
ASTERACEAE

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