Sericocoma

Fenzl
Source: 
SSA
Synonym(s): 
Sericocoma Fenzl subgen. Eurotia Schinz: 183 (1895) in key, and subgen. Eusericocoma Schinz: 183 (1895), in part.
Description: 
Glabrous or hairy herbs or subshrubs. Leaves opposite or partly alternate, linear, oblong or occasionally obovate, sessile, entire. Inflorescences terminal heads or spiciform, 1 or 2 flowers together with 1-more flowers reduced to spines, bracteate. Flowers all bisexual, solitary in axils of bracts; bracteoles 2, falling with fruit. Tepals 5, connate at base, coriaceous or chartaceous, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, long-pilose, subequal, outer not long-aristate. Stamens 5, shortly connate below; pseudostaminodes minute 0; anthers 2-thecous. Ovary +/- ovoid, woolly or tomentose; ovule solitary, suspended from apex of elongated funicle; style slender; stigma capitate. Capsule thin-walled, included in perianth, membranous, indehiscent. Seed compressed; embryo annular.
Distribution: 
Species 3, confined to sthn Afr., dry parts of Namibia, Northern, Western and Eastern Cape.
Classification: 
AMARANTHACEAE

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