Description :

• Erect, much-branched shrubs
• Leaves alternate, sessile, oblanceolate to thorn-like
• Capitula radiate or discoid; sessile or subsessile, solitary or in small clusters in axils of distal leaves
• Involucral bracts multiseriate, glabrous, usually with short apical spine
• Receptacle epaleate
• Ray florets (if present) female, corolla yellow, with 3 small apical lobes
• Disc florets bisexual, 5-lobed, lobes linear, with or without glands or hairs outside; surface cells elongate, with rows of low papillae on marginal cells
• Anthers calcarate and caudate; endothecial cells with transverse thickenings in basal half only; apical appendage of thin-walled cells
• Style branches elongate, slender, with single continuous stigmatic surface inside each branch, with sweeping hairs on top of shaft and on backs of branches consisting of 2 or 3 cells divided longitudinally
• Cypselas prismatic, densely setuliferous with long biseriate hairs
• Pappus capillary, in 2 or 3 rows, inner bristles sometimes narrowly winged below

Nomenclature:

• Eremothamneae
  • Robinson & Brettell: 164 (1973)
  • Robinson: 34 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Genera 2, endemic

References:

• ROBINSON, H. 1994. Notes on the tribes Eremothamneae , Gundulieae and Moquinieae with comparisons of their pollen. Taxon 43
• ROBINSON, H. & BRETTELL, R.D. 1973. Tribal revisions in the Asteraceae . 11. A new tribe Eremothamneae . Phytologia 26

Resources:

• Key to Asteraceae tribes
• Key to Eremothamneae genera

• Eremothamneae genera: