Description:
Perennial herbs. Leaves entire or mostly variously lobed-pinnatisect, usually ovate-cordate in outline. Capitula slender and rather few-flowered, often pendent, in corymbose to thyrsoid-paniculate, often elongate synflorescences. Florets violet, bluish, pink, purple, white, or rarely yellow; corolla glabrous. Cypselas terete to narrowly fusiform, 3- or 4-ribbed, glabrous and smooth or scabrid-hispid, not or hardly constricted below apex. Pappus of many stout, scabrid-barbellate bristles.
Distribution:
Species +/-30, Asia, N America, Central and S Europe, Canary Islands, Socotra, and trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. ?Angola (fide Brummitt (Unpublished); no other record seen).
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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