Leaves
alternate, sessile, narrowly oblong, flattened, greyish tomentose on both surfaces, eglandular, margin entire
Capitula
radiate, solitary, terminal on long leafless peduncles
Involucral
bracts with lanceolate laminas
Receptacle
flat, epaleate
Ray florets
female, in one row, fewer than disc florets, yellow with purple bands dorsally; cypselas and pappus as in disc florets
Disc florets
perfect, yellow, glandular-hairy
Anthers
ecalcarate with short tails; apical appendage acute; endothecial tissue polarised
Style
branches truncate with obtuse sweeping hairs apically
Cypselas
rod-like with 5 vascular bundles, moderately hairy with elongated twin hairs
Pappus
of free, barbellate, capillary bristles in one row with an outer row of very narrow scales
Nomenclature:
Oreoleysera
K.Bremer
Bremer: 450 (1978)
Anderberg & Bremer: 1069 (1991)
Anderberg: 67 (1991)
Anderberg: 333 (1994)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa
: Monotypic:
Oreoleysera montana
(Bolus) K.Bremer, endemic to Western Cape
References:
ANDERBERG, A.A. 1991. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe
Gnaphalieae
(
Asteraceae
).
Opera Botanica
104
ANDERBERG, A.A. 1994. Tribes
Inuleae
,
Plucheeae
,
Gnaphalieae
. In K. Bremer,
Asteraceae
, cladistics and classification
. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
ANDERBERG, A.A. & BREMER, K. 1991. Parsimony analysis and cladistic reclassification of the
Relhania
generic group (
Asteraceae
-
Gnaphalieae
).
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
78
BREMER, K. 1978.
Oreoleysera
and
Athrixia
, new and old South African genera of the
Compositae
.
Botaniska Notiser
131
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