Shrubs or shrublets, erect, sprawling, or procumbent
Leaves
alternate, usually pinnately dissected into terete segments, occasionally entire and acicular, terete, or linear
lnflorescence
a panicle, often much branched, or frequently a terminal capitulum or a panicle of capitula; capitulum surrounded by an involucre of usually small, occasionally enlarged, coloured bracts
Flowers
bisexual, regular or slightly irregular
Perianth
straight or adaxially curved in bud; tube usually glabrous; claws slender to filiform, pubescent; limbs ovate-elliptic; abaxial perianth segments usually more densely pubescent than adaxial ones
Anthers
sessile, oblong-elliptic, arising from base of perianth limbs
Ovary
sessile, ovoid, pubescent, with 1 ovule; pollen presenter cylindric, clavate or capitate; style terete, straight or adaxially curved, glabrous, or with lower half pubescent
Hypogynous scales
4, rarely 0, linear-subulate
Fruit
a pubescent, ovoid to oblong achene, beaked at apex, truncate and pedicellate at base
x = 12 (1 report)
Nomenclature:
Serruria
Salisb.
Salisbury: t. 67 (1807)
Stapf et al.: 654 (1912)
Rourke: 285 (1982)
Rourke: 497 (1990)
Rourke: 1 (1994)
Rourke: 154 (1996)
Serraria
Adans.
Adanson: 284, 604 (1763)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa
: Species ± 55, Western Cape: Matsikamma Mountain to the south-western districts and eastwards to George
References:
ADANSON, M. 1763.
Familles des plantes
. Vincent, Paris
ROURKE, J.P. 1982. Two new species of
Serruria
Salisb. from the south-western Cape.
Journal of South African Botany
48
ROURKE, J.P. 1990. Four new species of
Serruria
(
Proteaceae
) from the south-western Cape.
South African Journal of Botany
56
ROURKE, J.P. 1994. Three new species of
Serruria
(
Proteaceae
) from the south-western Cape.
Bothalia
24
ROURKE, J.P. 1996. A new species of
Serruria
from the northern part of the Western Cape.
Bothalia
26
SALISBURY, R.A. 1807.
Paradisus Londinensis
Vol. 1. William Hooker, London
STAPF, O, PHILLIPS, E.P. & HUTCHINSON, J. 1912.
Proteaceae
.
Flora capensis
5,1
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