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Pope, G.V. (1975) The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 6. Helenieae. Kirkia 10(1) 101-121
Annual herbs (in ours), strongly aromatic when crushed. Leaves opposite or alternate, pinnatisect, conspicuously gland-dotted; lobes narrowly elliptic or lanceolate; margin serrate. Capitula solitary or in dense corymbs, distinctly stalked, heterogamous, radiate; ray florets female; disk florets bisexual. Phyllaries in 1 series, connate for most of their length, gland-dotted. Ray florets few, female. Rays yellow, orange or brown. Achenes narrowly cylindric-turbinate. Pappus of 1-3 elongate setae and 7-9 shorter membranous scales with ciliate margins. Worldwide: c. 50 species in tropical and warm parts of America with 1 species in Africa Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
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