e-Key v3 - Alciope
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Asteraceae - Senecioneae - Alciope DC.

Description :

  • Perennial herbs, woolly
  • Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, elliptic or ovate, sometimes toothed, white-woolly beneath, tomentose-glabrescent above
  • Capitula radiate, solitary or laxly corymbose, pedunculate, many-flowered
  • Involucre ecalyculate, campanulate; bracts in 2 rows, leathery, ciliate above, woolly on back
  • Receptacle flat, epaleate
  • Ray florets female, corolla yellow; tube with linear to linear-oblong, 3-toothed lamina up to two and a half times its length
  • Staminodes sometimes present
  • Disc florets bisexual, fertile, corolla tube widened above, with 5 linear-lanceolate lobes
  • Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate or shortly sagittate at base, with lanceolate, apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised
  • Style terete, thickened at base; branches linear, obtuse; stigmatic areas continuous
  • Cypselas oblong, pubescent
  • Pappus of many fine bristles

Nomenclature:

  • Alciope DC.
    • Candolle: 209 (1836)
    • Harvey: 60 (1865)
    • Bremer: 512 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Species 2, Alciope lanata (Thunb.) DC. and A. tabularis (Thunb.) DC., endemic, Western Cape

References:

  • BREMER, K. 1994. Asteraceae , cladistics & classification . Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • CANDOLLE, A.P. DE. 1836. Compositae . Prodromus 5. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1865. Compositae . Flora capensis 3