9501.000 Dicoma Cass.

Pope, G.V. (1992) Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1)

Wild, H. (1972) The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 3. Mutisieae. Kirkia 8(2) 173-207

Description of the genus

Annual herbs or suffrutices with annual stems, often woolly-hairy and thistle-like. Leaves alternate, sessile and clasping the stem. Capitula homogamous and discoid, all florets bisexual or heterogamous, the outer florets neuter. Phyllaries many-seriate, imbricate, usually spine-tipped. Receptacular scales 0. Ray florets usually 0. Disk floret corollas yellowish to creamy-brown or purplish to whitish. Achenes ± flattened-turbinate, densely hispid. Pappus of 2-several series of setae.

Worldwide: 65 species in tropical and South Africa, Madagascar, Socotra and India

Zimbabwe: 7 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
anomala Sond.	N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
galpinii F.C. Wilson	S
gerrardii Harv. ex F.C. Wilson	N,W,C,E,S
macrocephala DC.	W,C,E,S	Description, Image
niccolifera Wild[NrEnd][LR-lc]	N,W,C,E	Description, Image
schinzii O. Hoffm.	N,W,C,S	Description, Image
tomentosa Cass.	N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image

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