Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs, +/- viscid at extremities. Leaves alternate, petiolate, linear to lanceolate, entire, serrulate or undulate. Capitula disciform or shortly radiate, in terminal corymbose cymes, pedunculate. Involucre subglobose or campanulate; bracts in 3-5 rows, imbricate. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Rayflorets female, fertile, in several rows, with strap-shaped lamina, 2- or 3-toothed, pale yellow. Style branches slender. Discflorets male, yellow; corolla funnel-shaped, shortly 5-lobed. Anthers obtuse at base, but very shortly 2-dentate. Cypselas narrowly turbinate, pubescent. Pappus of many barbellate bristles united at base, in 1 row. x = 9 (1 report).
Distribution:
Species +/- 60, Africa, Madagascar and Asia; 1 in sthn Afr.: Psiadia punctulata (DC.) Oliv. & Hiern ex Vatke, Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, North-West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Northern Cape.
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