e-Key v3 - Inezia
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Asteraceae - Anthemideae - Inezia E.Phillips

Description :

  • Perennial herbs, with erect stems from woody rootstock
  • Leaves alternate, entire or pinnatisect, glandular-punctate, pilose
  • Capitula radiate, many-flowered, solitary, terminal, pedunculate
  • Involucre campanulate; bracts in 3 or 4 rows, ± linear, pilose; inner bracts with membranous tip
  • Receptacle conical, epaleate
  • Ray florets female, fertile or sterile, yellow or white; corolla tube short or 0, ciliate and glandular on margin, with obovate, 2- or 3-toothed lamina, 3 to 4 times longer than tube
  • Disc florets bisexual, fertile, yellow; corolla tube somewhat compressed, winged, glandular on margins, 4-lobed, with 2 lateral lobes somewhat cucullate, dorsal and ventral lobes ovate
  • Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate, with ovate, apical appendage
  • Style terete, somewhat swollen at base, with oblong, truncate branches; cells of stylopodium thick-walled
  • Cypselas oblong, 4-angled, glandular
  • Pappus of minute scales or 0
  • x = 10

Nomenclature:

  • Inezia E.Phillips
    • Phillips: 297 (1932)
    • Brusse: 27 (1989)
    • Bremer & Humphries: 146 (1993)
    • Bremer: 471 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Species 2: Inezia integrifolia (Klatt) E.Phillips and I. speciosa Brusse, endemic, Northern Province, Mpumalanga and Swaziland

References:

  • BREMER, K. 1994. Asteraceae , cladistics & classification . Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • BREMER, K. & HUMPHRIES, C. 1993. Generic monograph of the Asteraceae - Anthemideae . Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Botany Series 23
  • BRUSSE, F. 1989. Asteraceae . A new species of Inezia ( Anthemideae ) from the north-eastern Transvaal. Bothalia 19
  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1932. Inezia , a new genus of Compositae from South Africa. Kew Bulletin 1932