Description:

• Shrubs or subshrubs
• Leaves alternate, closely set, linear-filiform, ericoid, entire or lobed-pinnatipartite, sometimes with additional lobes from leaf base ('pseudostipules'), subterete-flattened, herbaceous-coriaceous, pubescent-glabrescent, with impressed glands in hollows or furrows
• Capitula radiate, solitary, terminal, pedunculate
• Involucre hemispherical-cup-shaped; involucral bracts imbricate, ovate-oblong-lanceolate or spathulate, coriaceous with brownish membranous margins and tips, glandular and floccose-woolly or glabrescent
• Receptacle convex-hemispherical or subconical, epaleate
• Ray florets female, fertile, 9-21, white-pinkish; tube somewhat compressed, glandular; lamina 4(5)-veined, apically 3-fid
• Style branches oblong, truncate
• Disc florets bisexual, many, yellow; corolla regular, with somewhat spongy glandular tube and narrow 5-lobed limb
• Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate, with ovate-oblong, obtuse-subtruncate apical appendage; filament collar oblong, of subequal cells
• Style fertile with truncate branches; base not much swollen, partly immersed in short and sometimes indistinct nectary
• Cypselas oblong, terete or angular, usually 5-ribbed, glandular with broad sessile glands, with myxogenic cell layers, especially abaxially
• Pappus an oblique, adaxially longer, white, scarious crown or cup; or of one large adaxial and one smaller abaxial scale, often shorter in disc florets

Nomenclature:

• Cymbopappus B.Nord.
  • Nordenstam: 150 (1976)
  • Nordenstam: 147 (1987)
  • Bremer & Humphries: 151 (1993)
  • Bremer: 473 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa: Species 3, endemic, Mpumalanga, Western and Eastern Cape, each species in a different province