Welwitschiella

O.Hoffm.
Description: 
Perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, simple. Capitula disciform, paniculate. Involucral bracts in 4 or 5 rows. Receptacle honeycombed with toothed margins to the pits. Florets : marginal ones female, 4-lobed, yellow; disc florets functionally male. Cypselas : ray cypselas narrowly obconic, 2- to 6-ribbed. Pappus in marginal cypselas of 2-5 irregularly toothed scales.
Distribution: 
Monotypic: Welwitschiella neriifolia O.Hoffm., Angola, Zambia.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
ASTERACEAE

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