Description :

• Shrubs or shrublets, glabrous or pubescent
• Leaves opposite, rarely alternate, ericoid, sometimes clustered, entire or lobed
• Capitula radiate, terminal, solitary, rarely corymbose, shortly pedunculate or subsessile
• Involucre campanulate to subglobose; bracts in 3-5 rows, outer sometimes with 2-5 glands on back near apex, inner ciliate near apex, sometimes all with broad, membranous apex
• Receptacle flat or convex, rarely conical, paleate or sometimes epaleate; paleae longer than disc florets, linear, sometimes with bent, apical appendage
• Ray florets female, fertile; corolla white, tube with oblong to linear, 3-toothed lamina 2-4 times as long as tube, glandular
• Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corolla tube sometimes campanulate above, with 5 ovate lobes
• Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate, with linear, apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised
• Style linear, with linear, truncate branches
• Cypselas 10-12-ribbed, rarely up to 18-ribbed, minutely papillose especially on ribs, with apical rim
• Pappus 0

Nomenclature:

• Eumorphia DC.
  • Candolle: 2 (1838)
  • Harvey: 153 (1865)
  • Grierson: t. 608 (1972)
  • Källersjö: 538 (1985)
  • Bremer & Humphries: 94 (1993)
  • Bremer: 448 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 6, endemic, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Western and Eastern Cape