e-Key v3 - Stilpnogyne
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Asteraceae - Senecioneae - Stilpnogyne DC.

Description :

  • Annual herbs, delicate, glabrous
  • Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate-cordate, dentate, auriculate
  • Capitula disciform, small, few-flowered, solitary or corymbose, pedunculate
  • Involucre ecalyculate, campanulate; bracts in 1 row, linear-lanceolate, with submembranous margins, basally connate, glabrous
  • Receptacle flat, epaleate
  • Marginal florets female; corolla 3-toothed
  • Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corolla yellowish; tube widened above, glabrous, with 5 lanceolate lobes
  • Anthers linear, ecalcarate and ecaudate; with lanceolate, apical appendage; endothecial tissue radial
  • Style terete in female florets, with downy, terete branches; in disc florets branches shorter and bearded at apex only
  • Cypselas compressed, obovate, sparsely pubescent
  • Pappus of many fine bristles; 0 in marginal florets

Nomenclature:

  • Stilpnogyne DC.
    • Candolle: 293 (1838)
    • Harvey: 306 (1865)
    • Bremer: 509 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Monotypic: Stilpnogyne bellidioides DC., endemic, Western Cape

References:

  • BREMER, K. 1994. Asteraceae , cladistics & classification . Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • CANDOLLE, A.P. DE. 1838. Compositae . Prodromus 6. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1865. Compositae . Flora capensis 3