Description :

• Perennial herbs, acaulescent
• Leaves radical, incised along margin, glabrous or woolly
• Capitula disciform, solitary, on short scapes ± equalling leaves
• Involucre with scales imbricate, lanceolate
• Marginal florets female, in 1 row; corolla white, bilabiate, outer lip 3-toothed, inner shorter, bipartite
• Disc florets bisexual; corolla bilabiate, of same colour as marginal florets
• Anthers tailed
• Style shortly 2-lobed; branches scarcely divergent, semiterete, obtuse, pubescent
• Cypselas ovate-oblong, rostrate
• Pappus of scabrous bristles in many rows, falling with epigynous disc or annulus

Nomenclature:

• Perdicium L.
  • Linnaeus: 22 (1760)
  • Harvey: 523 (1865)
  • Bremer: 104 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 2, endemic: Perdicium capense L. and P. leiocarpa DC., Western Cape, from the Clanwilliam area to Worcester