e-Key v3 - Langebergia
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Asteraceae - Gnaphalieae - Langebergia Anderb.

Description :

  • Shrubs
  • Leaves alternate, sessile, greyish tomentose (hair type B), eglandular, margin flat, entire
  • Capitula disciform, in terminal flat-topped corymbs
  • Involucral bracts papery, white, opaque; stereome undivided
  • Receptacle flat, epaleate
  • Female florets purple, pistillate, filiform, fewer than disc florets
  • Disc florets bisexual or functionally male; corolla purple, lobes erect
  • Anthers ecalcarate, caudate with short tails; apical appendage flat, as wide as thecae; endothecial tissue polarised
  • Style bifid; style branches truncate with obtuse sweeping hairs apically; stigmatic surfaces separated
  • Cypselas ellipsoid, with short, clavate, nonmyxogenic twin hairs; epidermis smooth
  • Pappus of free, barbellate, capillary bristles in 1 row, basally with patent cilia; apical cells clavate, white, opaque

Nomenclature:

  • Langebergia Anderb.
    • Anderberg: 93 (1991)
    • Nordenstam: 406 (1996)
  • Petalacte D.Don section Amphilasia DC.
    • Harvey: 288 (1865)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Monotypic: Langebergia canescens (DC.) Anderb., endemic, Western Cape

References:

  • ANDERBERG, A.A. 1991. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe Gnaphalieae ( Asteraceae ). Opera Botanica 104
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1865. Compositae . Flora capensis 3
  • NORDENSTAM, B. 1996. Anderbergia B.Nord., a new genus of everlastings ( Compositae - Gnaphalieae ) from the Cape Province. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 98B Suppl.