Description:

• Erect or diffuse shrublets without stolons, with greyish whitish tomentum
• Leaves alternate, sessile, simple, entire, tomentose, eglandular, with revolute margins
• Capitula disciform, small, in terminal dense corymbs
• Involucral bracts dimorphic, ± tomentose, with undivided stereome; outer involucral bracts narrowly linear to oblong or spathulate with membranous brown distal portion; inner involucral bracts unguiculate with linear-oblong, ± tomentose claw and white opaque, glabrous, petaloid apical portion
• Receptacle epaleate
• Female florets (0)1 or 2; corolla white or yellowish, shortly lobed
• Style bifurcate
• Cypsela ellipsoid-oblong, glabrous or shortly hirsute with papilliform nonmyxogenic twin hairs, rarely also sparsely setose with longer narrower hairs
• Ovary wall crystals prismatic (rectangular, hexa- or octagonal), homomorphic or heteromorphic
• Pappus bristles uniseriate, basally shortly connate or nearly discrete, without patent cilia, barbellate throughout with usually short acute to obtuse teeth
• Functionally male florets few (3-6); corolla white or yellow, tubular below, with campanulate 5-lobed limb; lobes erect to spreading, with marginal veins reaching lobe apex
• Anthers with basal tails and apical flat ± ovate-triangular appendage; endothecium polarised; filament collar elongate, straight
• Style sterile, simple with subclavate or truncate tip, sometimes minutely bifid, with obtuse, short sweeping hairs; stylophore distinct, broader than style
• Ovary aborted, glabrous, 2-veined
• Pappus bristles uniseriate, basally shortly connate or almost discrete, without patent cilia, barbellate throughout with acute to obtuse or subclavate teeth

Nomenclature:

• Anderbergia B.Nord.
  • Nordenstam: 407 (1996)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa: Species 6, endemic, Western Cape