e-Key v3 - Artemisiopsis
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Asteraceae - Gnaphalieae - Artemisiopsis S.Moore

Description:

  • Annual herbs
  • Leaves alternate, linear, sessile, mucronate, woolly hairy (hair type B) and glandular-hairy, margin flat, dentate
  • Capitula disciform, few together in small clusters
  • Involucral bracts in few rows, cartilaginous, woolly hairy; stereome divided
  • Receptacle flat, epaleate
  • Female florets yellow, filiform, in several rows, more than disc florets
  • Disc florets bisexual; corolla yellow, tubular; lobes erect
  • Anthers ecalcarate, caudate; endothecial tissue polarised; apical appendage flat, narrower than thecae
  • Style bifid; style branches truncate with apical tuft of obtuse sweeping hairs; stigmatic surface separated
  • Cypselas basally sparsely hairy with elongated, not myxogenic twin hairs, glandular-hairy; epidermis smooth
  • Pappus of few free, barbellate, capillary bristles in 1 row with outer row of narrow, fused scales; basally without patent cilia

Nomenclature:

  • Artemisiopsis S.Moore
    • Moore: 331, t. 8 (1902)
    • Merxmüller: 28 (1967)
    • Anderberg: 55 (1991)
    • Anderberg: 323 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Monotypic: Artemisiopsis villosa (O.Hoffm.) Schweick.; tropical and southern Africa
  • Southern Africa: Namibia, Botswana and Northern Province

References:

  • ANDERBERG, A.A. 1991. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104
  • ANDERBERG, A.A. 1994. Tribes Inuleae, Plucheeae, Gnaphalieae. In K. Bremer, Asteraceae, cladistics and classification. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • MERXMÜLLER, H. 1967. Asteraceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 139
  • MOORE, S. LE M. 1902. A contribution to the Composite flora of Africa. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 35

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