Leaves
alternate, sessile, filiform, lanceolate, oblong or spathulate in outline, entire, serrate or dentate to pinnatifid, with conspicuous short glands, in some species with glandular hairs and/or bristly hairs
Capitula
discoid, solitary to laxly corymbose, pedunculate, terminal
Involucre
narrowly to broadly cyathiform; bracts in 3 or 4 rows, lanceolate to narrowly oblong or narrowly obovate, dorsally glandular and marginally ciliate
Receptacle
flat, epaleate
Disc florets
bisexual; corolla yellow or occasionally purplish or turning purplish with age; tube gradually attenuating towards base, basally widened into ring-shaped foot, widening upwards, glandular, 5-lobed, lobes triangular
Anthers
minutely calcarate, caudate, with branched tails; with lanceolate, apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised
Style
bifid; style branches linear to spathulate; with acute sweeping hairs not reaching furcation
Cypselas
terete to somewhat flattened, cylindrical, ribbed, glandular-hairy
Pappus
of barbellate or plumose bristles in 1 or several rows and outer row of entire or incised to almost bristle-like scales
x = 10 (1 report)
Nomenclature:
Pegolettia
Cass.
Cassini: 230 (1825)
Harvey: 122 (1865)
Anderberg: 158 (1986)
Anderberg: 107 (1991)
Anderberg: 289 (1994)
Distribution & Notes:
Global
: Species 9, Africa and Middle East
Southern Africa
: Species 9, widespread but absent from North-West
References:
ANDERBERG, A. 1986. The genus
Pegolettia
(
Compositae
,
Inuleae
).
Cladistics
2,2
ANDERBERG, A.A. 1991. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe
Inuleae
(
Asteraceae
).
Plant Systematics and Evolution
176
ANDERBERG, A.A. 1994. Tribes
Inuleae
,
Plucheeae
,
Gnaphalieae
. In K. Bremer,
Asteraceae
, cladistics and classification
. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
CASSINI, A.H.G. DE. 1825.
Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles
38. Ed. F. Cuvier. edn 2. Le Normant, Paris
HARVEY, W.H. 1865.
Compositae
.
Flora capensis
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