Stems arising from subterranean, thick woody tubers or rhizomes
Leaves alternate or crowded on brachyblasts, sessile, straight, adaxially concave, glabrous above, glandular-hairy below, margin entire
Capitula radiate, solitary, on pedunculoid few-leaved stems or on long leafless peduncles
Involucral bracts with spathulate laminas
Receptacle flat or flat to convex, epaleate
Ray florets female, yellow with purple bands dorsally, in one row, fewer than disc florets
Cypselas as in disc florets
Pappus of narrow scales
Disc florets bisexual, corolla yellow
Anthers ecalcarate, with short tails; endothecial tissue polarised; apical appendage acute
Style branches truncate with obtuse sweeping hairs apically
Cypselas narrowly elliptic with 5 or 3 vascular bundles, glabrous or sparsely hairy with elongated twin hairs
Pappus of 5 barbellate capillary bristles and narrow scales, or of ± connate scales only
Nomenclature:
Comborhiza Anderb. & K.Bremer
Anderberg & Bremer: 1070 (1991)
Anderberg: 330 (1994)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa: Species 2, endemic, Comborhiza longipes (K.Bremer) Anderb. & K.Bremer, Western Cape, and C. virgata (N.E.Br.) Anderb. & K.Bremer, KwaZulu-Natal
References:
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
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