Description :

• Shrublets with silky pubescence
• Leaves alternate, entire, ericoid, sessile, aromatic
• Capitula radiate, solitary or in leafy cymes towards ends of branches, 7-12-flowered
• Involucre campanulate or ovoid; bracts in 2 or 3 rows, ciliate or fimbriate, pilose on back
• Receptacle epaleate, pubescent or pilose, convex or conical
• Ray florets 2-11, female, sterile, strap-shaped, white or pink; with cylindric tube and elliptic or obovate lamina, 2-3 times as long as tube
• Style undivided
• Disc florets bisexual, fertile, yellow; tube somewhat compressed, glandular, with 4 acute or rounded lobes
• Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate; with oblong, apical appendage
• Style branches linear, truncate, bristle-tipped; stylopodium large and persistent in fruit
• Cypselas oblong, 3- or 4-angled, glabrous, with large myxogenic cells in rounded, scattered groups; crowned with hardened conical or globose stylopodium
• Pappus 0
• x = 10

Nomenclature:

• Thaminophyllum Harv.
  • Harvey: 155 (1865)
  • Bond: 158 (1980)
  • Bremer & Humphries: 146 (1993)
  • Bremer: 471 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 3, endemic, Western Cape