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Hilliard, O.M. (1983) Asteraceae, Inuleae, Gnaphaliinae Flora of Southern Africa 33-7-2
Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (2000) Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera Strelitzia 10
Perennial herbs or sub-shrubs; stems long, slender, tangled, thinly white-tomentose, leafy. Leaves alternate, small, elliptic, to suborbicular; apex obtuse or rounded, sessile or shortly petiolate; margins entire, flat or undulate, lower surfaces white-tormentose. Capitula disciform, small, many in small compact corymbose clusters terminating branchlets. Phyllaries in 3 or 4 rows, tips opaque, white. Receptacle shortly honeycombed, flat, without scales. Florets 10-40 flowers, narrowly tubular; corolla yellow, sometimes tipped pink or purple. Pappus bristles scabrid above. Worldwide: 2 species, endemic to southern Africa. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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