Leaves alternate, sometimes fascicled, ericoid or lanceolate, sometimes scabrid and pungent and whitish-woolly beneath
Capitula radiate, many-flowered, solitary, terminal, pedunculate or subsessile
Involucre campanulate; bracts connate into cup-like base, sometimes setose, with lobes sometimes partially reflexed
Receptacle conical, honeycombed
Ray florets neuter; corolla yellow, strap-shaped; tube flattened with lamina linear, 3-toothed; staminodes sometimes present
Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corolla yellow, tubular, slightly widened above, with 5 linear lobes, setose on back
Anthers minutely sagittate
Style terete, thickened above, with linear branches
Cypselas obconical, ± ribbed, pilose
Pappus generally of 2 distinct rows, each of 10 broad scales, with inner row of short scales and outer row of slender, membranous scales or of scales divided into linear segments ± as long as corolla tube
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Biodiversity Advisor, developed by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and its Data Partners, is a system that will provide integrated biodiversity information to a wide range of users who will have access to geospatial data, plant and animal species distribution data, ecosystem-level data, literature, images and metadata.
The integrated information comes from our much-loved Botanical Database of Southern Africa (BODATSA) also known as Plants of Southern Africa (POSA), Zoological Database of Southern Africa (ZODATSA), Biodiversity Geographic Information System (BGIS), SANBI's institutional repository (Opus) and others.
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