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Asteraceae - Astereae - Engleria O.Hoffm.

Description:

  • Annual or perennial herbs, erect or decumbent
  • Leaves opposite or upper subopposite, petiolate, ovate
  • Capitula radiate or discoid, axillary and solitary, on long peduncles or aggregated into cymes, sometimes radiate, several-flowered
  • Involucre campanulate; bracts in 6-many rows, 1-nerved, with membranous margin
  • Receptacle convex, honeycombed, with margin slightly produced
  • Ray florets female, yellow
  • Disc florets bisexual
  • Corolla with tube gradually widening upwards; lobes ovate
  • Anthers linear, obtuse or obtusely lobed at base; with ovate, membranous, apical appendage
  • Style terete, with branches usually lanceolate at hairy apex
  • Cypselas obovoid, somewhat compressed, 2- or 4-ribbed with resin sacs in ribs, hirsute
  • Pappus in 2 rows, of scabrid, barbellate or subpilose bristles, often connate at base

Nomenclature:

  • Engleria O.Hoffm.
    • Hoffmann: 273 (1889)
    • Merxmüller: 56 (1967)
    • Bremer: 403 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 2: Engleria africana O.Hoffm. and E. decumbens (Welw. ex Hiern) Hiern, Angola and southern Africa
  • Southern Africa: Namibia

References:

  • BREMER, K. 1994. Asteraceae, cladistics & classification. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • HOFFMANN, K.A.O. 1889. Compositae. In A. Engler, Plantae Marlothianae. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Flora Südafrikas. Botanische Jahrbücher 10
  • MERXMÜLLER, H. 1967. Asteraceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 139

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