Source:
SSA
Description:
Perennial herbs, acaulescent. Leaves radical, incised along margin, glabrous or woolly. Capitula disciform, solitary, on short scapes +/- equalling leaves. Involucre with scales imbricate, lanceolate. Marginal florets female, in 1 row; corolla white, bilabiate, outer lip 3-toothed, inner shorter, bipartite. Disc florets bisexual; corolla bilabiate, of same colour as marginal florets. Anthers tailed. Style shortly 2-lobed; branches scarcely divergent, semiterete, obtuse, pubescent. Cypselas ovate-oblong, rostrate. Pappus of scabrous bristles in many rows, falling with epigynous disc or annulus.
Distribution:
Species 2, endemic in sthn Afr.: Perdicium capense L. and P. leiocarpa DC., Western Cape, from the Clanwilliam area to Worcester.
Classification:
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