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Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (2000) Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera Strelitzia 10
Branched annual herbs with glandular indumentum. Leaves alternate, pinnatifid with spiny margins. Capitula discoid, solitary. Involucre with bracts in many rows, imbricate, spiny, outer leaf-like, inner sometimes with apical appendages. Florets yellow. Pappus usually double; outer row of persistent scales; inner row with scales, shorter and basally connate. Worldwide: 14 species in the Mediterranean region, Asia and 1 in southern Africa Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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