Source:
SSA
Description:
Annual herbs, delicate, glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate-cordate, dentate, auriculate. Capitula disciform, small, few-flowered, solitary or corymbose, pedunculate. Involucre ecalyculate, campanulate; bracts in 1 row, linear-lanceolate, with submembranous margins, basally connate, glabrous. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Marginalflorets female; corolla 3-toothed. Discflorets bisexual, fertile; corolla yellowish; tube widened above, glabrous, with 5 lanceolate lobes. Anthers linear, ecalcarate and ecaudate; with lanceolate, apical appendage; endothecial tissue radial. Style terete in female florets, with downy, terete branches; in disc florets branches shorter and bearded at apex only. Cypselas compressed, obovate, sparsely pubescent. Pappus of many fine bristles; 0 in marginal florets.
Distribution:
Monotypic, endemic to sthn Afr.: Stilpnogyne bellidioides DC., Western Cape.
Classification:
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