Description :

• Annual or perennial herbs, erect or decumbent
• Leaves opposite or upper subopposite, petiolate, ovate
• Capitula radiate or discoid, axillary and solitary, on long peduncles or aggregated into cymes, sometimes radiate, several-flowered
• Involucre campanulate; bracts in 6-many rows, 1-nerved, with membranous margin
• Receptacle convex, honeycombed, with margin slightly produced
• Ray florets female, yellow
• Disc florets bisexual
• Corolla with tube gradually widening upwards; lobes ovate
• Anthers linear, obtuse or obtusely lobed at base; with ovate, membranous, apical appendage
• Style terete, with branches usually lanceolate at hairy apex
• Cypselas obovoid, somewhat compressed, 2- or 4-ribbed with resin sacs in ribs, hirsute
• Pappus in 2 rows, of scabrid, barbellate or subpilose bristles, often connate at base

Nomenclature:

• Engleria O.Hoffm.
  • Hoffmann: 273 (1889)
  • Merxmüller: 56 (1967)
  • Bremer: 403 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

• Global : Species 2: Engleria africana O.Hoffm. and E. decumbens (Welw. ex Hiern) Hiern, Angola and southern Africa
• Southern Africa : Namibia