Description:

• Perennial herbs, with erect stems from woody rootstock
• Leaves alternate, entire or pinnatisect, glandular-punctate, pilose
• Capitula radiate, many-flowered, solitary, terminal, pedunculate
• Involucre campanulate; bracts in 3 or 4 rows, ± linear, pilose; inner bracts with membranous tip
• Receptacle conical, epaleate
• Ray florets female, fertile or sterile, yellow or white; corolla tube short or 0, ciliate and glandular on margin, with obovate, 2- or 3-toothed lamina, 3 to 4 times longer than tube
• Disc florets bisexual, fertile, yellow; corolla tube somewhat compressed, winged, glandular on margins, 4-lobed, with 2 lateral lobes somewhat cucullate, dorsal and ventral lobes ovate
• Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate, with ovate, apical appendage
• Style terete, somewhat swollen at base, with oblong, truncate branches; cells of stylopodium thick-walled
• Cypselas oblong, 4-angled, glandular
• Pappus of minute scales or 0
• x = 10

Nomenclature:

• Inezia E.Phillips
  • Phillips: 297 (1932)
  • Brusse: 27 (1989)
  • Bremer & Humphries: 146 (1993)
  • Bremer: 471 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa: Species 2: Inezia integrifolia (Klatt) E.Phillips and I. speciosa Brusse, endemic, Northern Province, Mpumalanga and Swaziland