Source:
SSA
Description:
Annual or perennial herbs, usually scapigerous, +/- pubescent, with milky latex. Leaves radical or cauline and alternate, entire, dentate or pinnatifid. Capitula ligulate, many-flowered, in lax corymbose panicles, peduncles hollow. Involucre campanulate; with unequal bracts in 2 or 3 rows. Receptacle flat, epaleate, alveolate. Florets (ligules) bisexual, fertile; corolla strap-shaped, yellow or innermost purplish brown, pubescent outside, with tube and 5-toothed lamina. Anthers with base sagittate; apical appendages ovate. Style linear, setose above, with linear obtuse branches, sweeping hairs short. Cypselas obconic, closely ribbed, smooth, glabrous. Pappus in 2 rows, with setose bristles, persistent. x = 9.
Distribution:
Species 20, Macaronesia, Mediterranean region, northern and tropical Africa; 1 in sthn Afr.: Tolpis capensis (L.) Sch.Bip., widespread in South Africa and Swaziland.
Classification:
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