Leaves
alternate, many, imbricate, linear-acicular, terete or semiterete, mucronate
Inflorescence
densely flowered, globose to cylindric, compound, paniculate or rarely a capitulum; lateral racemes 4-9-flowered; bracts and floral bracts free
Flowers
bisexual, regular
Perianth
straight in bud, cylindric; tube glabrous; claws filiform, twisting on opening, woolly, sericeous or scabrous; limbs elliptic, glabrous or pubescent
Anthers
sessile, arising from base of perianth limbs, ovoid to ellipsoid
Ovary
ellipsoid, pubescent or glabrous; ovule 1, pendulous; style filiform, straight; pollen presenter terminal, cylindric, ovoid or capitate
Hypogynous scales
4, rarely 0, subulate-linear
Fruit
a glabrous to glabrescent achene, broadly or narrowly introrse at base
Nomenclature:
Sorocephalus
R.Br.
Brown: 139 (1810)
Stapf et al.: 701 (1912)
Rourke: 21 (1969)
Soranthe
Salisb. ex Knight
Knight: 72 (1809)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa
: Species 11, Western Cape: Cederberg to Klein River and Riviersonderend Mountains
References:
BROWN, R. 1810. On the
Proteaceae
of Jussieu.
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London
10
KNIGHT, J. 1809.
On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of PROTEEAE
. W. Savage, London
ROURKE, J.P. 1969. Taxonomic studies on
Sorocephalus
R.Br. and
Spatalla
Salisb.
Journal of South African Botany
Suppl. 7
STAPF, O, PHILLIPS, E.P. & HUTCHINSON, J. 1912.
Proteaceae
.
Flora capensis
5,1
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