Leaves
alternate, petiolate or sessile, sometimes leaf bases decurrent, sometimes auriculate, ovate, obovate, elliptic to linear or lanceolate, margin entire to dentate, tomentose or tomentose only beneath (hair type B)
Capitula
radiate or disciform, 1-3 together, sessile or shortly pedunculate on short, axillary branchlets
Involucre
campanulate; bracts in 3-6 rows, lanceolate to linear, ciliate towards apex, woolly on back; stereome undivided
Receptacle
slightly convex, honeycombed, epaleate
Marginal florets
female, in 1 row, white, blue, purple or green; corolla sometimes shortly strap-shaped or filiform, with 3-toothed, oblong or oblong-elliptic lamina longer than tube; staminodes often present
Style
2-branched
Disc florets
bisexual, fertile; corolla yellow, white or purple, rarely green; tube widened above, glabrous, with 5 linear or lanceolate lobes
Style
bifid; style branches obtuse, dorsally with short papillose, obtuse sweeping hairs not reaching furcation; stigmatic surface basally separated but apically converging
Cypselas
brown, cylindrical, 9-11-ribbed, glandular-hairy and sparsely hairy with elongated twin hairs
Pappus
persistent, of subbarbellate or subplumose bristles in 2 or 3 rows
Nomenclature:
Printzia
Cass.
Cassini: 324 (1825)
Harvey: 513 (1865)
Leins: 108 (1971)
Hilliard & Burtt: 368 (1973)
Kroner: 108 (1980)
Anderberg: 49 (1991)
Anderberg: 326 (1994)
Bojeria
DC.
Candolle: 94 (1836)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa
: Species 6, endemic, Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Western and Eastern Cape
References:
ANDERBERG, A.A. 1991. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe
Gnaphalieae
(
Asteraceae
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Opera Botanica
104
ANDERBERG, A.A. 1994. Tribes
Inuleae
,
Plucheeae
,
Gnaphalieae
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Asteraceae
, cladistics and classification
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CANDOLLE, A.P. DE. 1836.
Compositae
.
Prodromus
5. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
CASSINI, A.H.G. DE. 1825.
Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles
37. Ed. F. Cuvier. edn 2. Le Normant, Paris
HARVEY, W.H. 1865.
Compositae
.
Flora capensis
3
HILLIARD, O.M. & BURTT, B.L. 1973. Notes on some plants of southern Africa chiefly from Natal.
Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
32
KRONER, G. 1980. Systematische Studien im Umkreis von
Athrixia
Ker Gawler (
Asteraceae
).
Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung München
16
LEINS, P. 1971. Neukombinationen einiger Inuleen.
Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung München
9
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