Source:
SSA
Description:
Annual or rarely perennial herbs or suffruticose plants, aromatic. Leaves alternate, dentate, usually decurrent, narrow, hairy. Capitula disciform, small, congested in dense, globose or ovoid to broadly cylindrical, terminal secondary heads, pedunculate, occasionally sessile; flowers reddish or purple. Involucre ovoid or campanulate; bracts few. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Marginalflorets female; corolla filiform, 3-dentate. Discflorets functionally male; corolla tubular, 4- or 5-lobed. Anthers calcarate and caudate; cells of filament collar flattened; endothecial tissue radial. Style undivided, with obtuse sweeping hairs distally. Cypselas oblong, reduced, often hairy with uncinate or anchor-shaped hairs. Pappus 0. x = 10 (12, 13) (aneuploids, polyploidy, B-chromosomes).
Distribution:
Species +/- 40, mostly Africa to India and Java; 7 in sthn Afr., Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape.
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