Capitula discoid or disciform, pedunculate, solitary
Involucre urceolate, much shorter than florets; bracts appressed, coriaceous; appendage a short, erect to deflexed, deciduous spine
Marginal florets neuter; with staminodes; corolla purple, rarely white, longer than bisexual central florets
Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corolla purple, rarely white
Anthers caudate at base
Cypselas obovoid, many-ribbed and transversely rugulose between ribs, glabrous with apical rim, lateral detachment area large and surrounded by whitish, swollen margin, with elaiosome
Pappus double, outer of linear-subulate, persistent scales; inner generally a single, abaxial scale
x = 11
Nomenclature:
*Mantisalca Cass.
Cassini: 142 (1818)
Dostál: 254 (1976)
Bremer: 153 (1994)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species 4, Mediterranean region, North Africa
Southern Africa: Species 1: *Mantisalca salmantica (L.) Briq. & Cavill., an introduced weed, Northern and Eastern Cape
CASSINI, A.H.G. DE. 1818. Aperçu des genres ou sous-genres nouveaux formés par M. Henri Cassini dans la famille des Synanthérées. Bulletin des sciences de la Société Philomatique de Paris 10
DOSTÁL, J. 1976. Mantisalca. Flora europaea 4
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