e-Key v3 - Anisopappus
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Asteraceae - Inuleae - Anisopappus Hook. & Arn.

Description :

  • Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, hairy and glandular
  • Leaves alternate, petiolate, usually toothed, simple, lobed or pinnatipartite, rarely linear
  • Capitula radiate or discoid, several-flowered, in lax or dense, terminal corymbs
  • Involucre campanulate or hemispherical; bracts in 3-5 rows, lanceolate or oblong, variously hairy and glandular outside
  • Receptacle flat, paleate; paleae ciliate, ± enfolding disc florets
  • Ray florets female; in 1 row; corolla yellow, tube oblong or elliptic, 3- or 4-toothed, lamina ± as long as tube; ovary ellipsoid or linear-oblong, somewhat ribbed
  • Disc florets bisexual; corolla dull yellow, tube constricted in lower half or rarely widening gradually upwards, lower part of tube usually glandular, upper part usually glabrous; lobes 5, ovate
  • Anthers tailed, apical appendage lanceolate
  • Style terete; branches flat, linear, obtuse, papillose outside toward blunt apices
  • Cypselas ellipsoid or subcylindric, often ribbed, usually hairy
  • Pappus of linear, lanceolate or broad scales with longer, narrower scales interspersed; or scales equal; or 0 or cypsela crowned by shallow rim
  • x = 7 (polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Anisopappus Hook. & Arn.
    • Hooker & Arnott: 196 (1837)
    • Oliver & Hiern: 369 (1877)
    • Phillips: 811 (1951)
    • Hilliard: 288 (1977)
    • Wild: 48 (1964)
    • Wild: 80 (1982)
    • Anderberg: 283 (1994)
  • Eenia Hiern & S.Moore
    • Hiern & Moore: 373 (1899)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species 32, southern and tropical Africa, Madagascar, China
  • Southern Africa : Species 5, known from Namibia, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • ANDERBERG, A.A. 1994. Tribes Inuleae , Plucheeae , Gnaphalieae . In K. Bremer, Asteraceae , cladistics and classification . Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • HIERN, W.P. & MOORE, S. LE M. 1899. Alabastra diversa - Part V. Journal of Botany 37
  • HILLIARD, O.M. 1977. Compositae in Natal . University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg
  • HOOKER, W.J. & ARNOTT, G.A.W. 1837. The botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage . H.G. Bohn, London
  • OLIVER, D & HIERN, W.P. 1877. Compositae . Flora of tropical Africa 3
  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1951. The genera of South African flowering plants, edn 2. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 25
  • WILD, H. 1964. A revision of the genus Anisopappus Hook. & Arn. ( Compositae ). Kirkia 4
  • WILD, H. 1982. The Compositae of the Flora zambesiaca area, 12. Inuleae (continued). Kirkia 12

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