e-Key v3 - Poecilolepis
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Asteraceae - Astereae - Poecilolepis Grau

Description :

  • Annual or perennial herbs, prostrate to erect
  • Leaves alternate or opposite, entire, linear, somewhat succulent
  • Capitula radiate, solitary, pedunculate
  • Involucral bracts in 3 to many rows, imbricate
  • Receptacle paleate
  • Ray florets female, sterile, white
  • Disc florets bisexual, fertile, yellow
  • Anthers ecalcarate, bases auriculate (shortly caudate); with apical triangular appendages
  • Style branches with broadly triangular appendages and at base with long sweeping hairs
  • Cypselas obovoid, somewhat compressed, ± pubescent
  • Pappus of few, scabrid, caducous bristles in 1 row

Nomenclature:

  • Poecilolepis Grau
    • Grau: 243 (1977)
    • Bremer: 430 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Species 2, endemic: Poecilolepis ficoidea (DC.) Grau and P. maritima (Bolus) Grau, Western and Eastern Cape

References:

  • BREMER, K. 1994. Asteraceae , cladistics & classification . Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • GRAU, J. 1977. Poecilolepis - eine neue Gattung der Asteraceae - Astereae . Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung München 13