Description :

• Annual or perennial, erect or decumbent herbs, ± hairy, branching from base
• Leaves alternate, sessile, with subauriculate bases, pinnatifid, oblong-obovate to obovate to spathulate in outline, hairy on both sides, lobes entire or dentate
• Capitula disciform, ± globose, single in leaf axils or 2-6 terminal, subcorymbosely arranged, on leafless or bracteate peduncles
• Involucre campanulate or cup-shaped; bracts in ± 3 rows, subequal, with membranous, transparent ciliate margins
• Receptacle convex to conical, epaleate
• Marginal florets female, fertile, in 2 or 3, rarely many rows; corolla yellow, tubular, 2-4-dentate, laxly glandular
• Disc florets many, bisexual, fertile, as long as or longer than outer florets; corolla yellow, lower part tubular becoming campanulate upwards, with 4 or 5 triangular lobes, laxly glandular
• Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate, apex with triangular obtuse appendages
• Style slightly longer than corolla, with 2 short branches; appendages triangular papillose
• Cypselas small, obovate or elliptic, slightly compressed, with 2 (rarely 4) marginal nerves, upper part often narrowed, loosely hairy
• Pappus of few, basally connate, scaly bristles, or a corona or rarely 0
• x = 9 (8)

Nomenclature:

• Grangea Adans.
  • Adanson: 121 (1763)
  • Oliver & Hiern: 304 (1877)
  • Merxmüller: 87 (1967)
  • Hilliard: 57 (1977)
  • Fayed: 450 (1979)
  • Bremer: 400 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

• Global : Species 10, Africa, Madagascar and Asia
• Southern Africa : Species 2: Grangea anthemoides O.Hoffm., G. maderaspatana (L.) Poir., subtropical flats of Namibia and N KwaZulu-Natal