Leaves
alternate, linear to linear-oblong, margins entire or remotely dentate, usually revolute, mucronate, usually tomentose on lower surface
Capitula
radiate, relatively large, solitary, terminal, on long or short, glandular peduncles
Involucre
broadly campanulate; bracts in 1-3 rows; outermost sometimes herbaceous, papillose; inner oblong to linear, ciliate towards apex, with membranous margins
Receptacle
epaleate, honeycombed (areolate)
Ray florets
female, fertile; corolla yellow; tube shorter than minutely 3-toothed, oblong-linear lamina, generally with staminodes, with filiform lobe ventrally in sinus of tube
Disc florets
bisexual, fertile; corolla yellow; tube widening above, with 5 linear lobes
Anthers
calcarate and caudate; with oblong, apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised
Style
slender with rather short style branches, apical portion not or only slightly thickened and with short hairs mainly at border to shaft
Cypselas
oblong-obovoid, densely sericeous
Pappus
of stout, subulate, bristle-like marginally barbellate scales in 2 rows
x = 10
Nomenclature:
Heterolepis
Cass.
Cassini: 26 (1820)
Harvey: 469 (1865)
Druce: 628 (1917)
Bremer: 257 (1994)
Minurothamnus
DC.
Candolle: 286 (1838)
Harvey: 124 (1865)
Merxmüller: 39 (1950)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa
: Species 3, endemic, Western Cape
CANDOLLE, A.P. DE. 1838.
Compositae
.
Prodromus
7,1. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
CASSINI, A.H.G. DE. 1820.
Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris
February 1820
DRUCE, G.C. 1917. Nomenclatorial notes: chiefly African and Australian. Report for 1916.
Report of the Botanical Exchange Club of the British Isles 1916
HARVEY, W.H. 1865.
Compositae
.
Flora capensis
3
MERXMÜLLER, H. 1950. Compositen-Studien 1.
Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung, München
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