Description :

• Shrublets, rather rigid and somewhat ericoid
• Leaves opposite, ternate or spirally imbricate, ovate to linear
• Capitula radiate, few-flowered, in terminal sessile clusters within a common involucre
• Involucre broadly campanulate; bracts in 3 or 4 rows, ovate, lanceolate, ciliate, sometimes glandular on margins, pubescent or scabrid on back
• Receptacle paleate; paleae acuminate or obtuse, sometimes fimbriate or irregularly 2- or 3-toothed
• Ray florets female, marginal, corolla tube somewhat compressed, with long linear, minutely toothed lamina, much longer or somewhat shorter than tube
• Style linear, with linear, obtuse or truncate branches
• Pappus a crown of short paleae
• Disc florets bisexual, fertile or some sterile; corolla tube campanulate or abruptly widening above
• Anthers linear, obtuse at base, with a lanceolate, apical appendage
• Ovary linear, glabrous
• Style terete, with linear, truncate branches
• Pappus a crown of short paleae

Nomenclature:

• Oedera L.
  • Linnaeus: 291 (1771)
  • Harvey: 134 (1865)
  • Anderberg: 68 (1991)
  • Anderberg: 332 (1994)
• Eroeda Levyns
  • Levyns: 83 (1948)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 18, endemic to Western and Eastern Cape