Description:

• Shrubs or shrublets, seldom perennial or annual herbs
• Leaves alternate, sessile, lax or closely set, sometimes appearing rosulate or fascicled, entire, serrate-dentate or pinnatifid
• Capitula radiate or discoid, lateral or pseudoterminal on unbranched peduncles
• Involucre ecalyculate, hemispherical, campanulate, cyathiform or urceolate; bracts in 1 or ± 2 rows, connate to various degrees, rarely free
• Receptacle flat or convex, honeycombed or rarely smooth, epaleate
• Ray florets rarely 0, female, fertile; tube cylindrical; lamina yellow, orange-coloured or red to coppery on lower surface
• Staminodes occasionally present
• Disc florets bisexual, fertile or rarely functionally male; corolla yellow, tubular to campanulate, (3-)5-lobed
• Stamens 5; anthers linear, ecalcarate and ecaudate to subacute at base; with flat, apical appendage; endothecial tissue radial
• Style terete or linear, bifid or sometimes simple; style branches linear, truncate, penicillate at apex
• Cypselas ellipsoid, glabrous or pubescent, ribbed or smooth or sometimes tuberculate or muricate or papillate
• Pappus of few to many caducous bristles or 0; bristles flexuous, barbellate
• x = 10 (polyploidy, B-chromosomes)

Nomenclature:

• Euryops (Cass.) Cass.
  • Cassini: 49 (1820)
  • Harvey: 408 (1865)
  • Nordenstam: 36 (1968)
  • Bremer: 501 (1994)
• Ruckeria DC.
  • Candolle: 483 (1838).
• Lasiocoma Bolus
  • Bolus: 390 (1906).
• Thodaya Compton
  • Compton: 323 (1931).
• Lysichlamys Compton
  • Compton: 118 (1943)

Distribution & Notes:

• Global: Species 97, Africa, 1 extending to the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra
• Southern Africa: Species 89, widespread