Description :

• Ericoid perennial herbs, shrublets or shrubs, rarely annuals
• Leaves alternate, sessile, often adaxially concave, tomentose on adaxial surface only (hair type B), eglandular, margins involute, entire
• Capitula disciform, few together along axis
• Involucral bracts papery, brownish, transparent; at least inner bracts ± hairy on abaxial surface; stereome divided
• Receptacle flat, epaleate
• Marginal florets female, purple, filiform, more numerous than disc florets
• Disc florets functionally male; corolla yellow, cylindric below, campanulate above, lobes erect
• Anthers ecalcarate, with short tails; apical appendage flat, as wide as thecae; endothecial tissue polarised
• Style undivided, with obtuse sweeping hairs distally
• Cypselas small, oblong, glabrous or with short, clavate, nonmyxogenic twin hairs; epidermis smooth
• Pappus of free, apically plumose, capillary bristles in 1 row, basally without patent cilia

Nomenclature:

• Trichogyne Less.
  • Lessing: 231 (1831)
  • Anderberg: 155 (1991)
  • Anderberg: 364 (1994)
• Ifloga Cass. in part
  • Hilliard: 297 (1981).
• Petalactella N.E.Br.
  • Brown: 100 (1894)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 9, endemic, Namibia, Northern, Western and Eastern Cape, 1 extending to Free State and S Mpumalanga