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Asteraceae - Anthemideae - Marasmodes DC.

Description:

  • Shrubs
  • Leaves alternate, sometimes clustered, entire or occasionally lobed, linear, ± ericoid, glandular-punctate, glabrous
  • Capitula discoid, few-flowered, sessile, closely aggregated at stem tips, rarely solitary
  • Involucre subcampanulate or spindle-shaped; bracts in 6 or 7 rows, ovate, oblong or lanceolate, sometimes inner or all with membranous tip
  • Receptacle flat, epaleate
  • Disc florets bisexual; corolla tube glandular, swollen and with thick vascular strands, ± campanulate above, with 5 ovate lobes
  • Anthers short and comparatively wide, ecalcarate and ecaudate; with linear or lanceolate, apical appendage
  • Style terete, discoid at base, with linear, truncate branches
  • Cypselas 5-ribbed, glandular, with myxogenic cells mainly abaxially; ribs with thick vascular strands
  • Pappus of 7-10 oblong, flat, whitish, adaxially longer scales

Nomenclature:

  • Marasmodes DC.
    • Candolle: 136 (1838)
    • Harvey: 175 (1865)
    • Hutchinson: 171 (1916)
    • Bremer & Humphries: 152 (1993)
    • Bremer: 475 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa: Species 4, endemic, Western Cape

References:

  • BREMER, K. 1994. Asteraceae, cladistics & classification. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • BREMER, K. & HUMPHRIES, C. 1993. Generic monograph of the Asteraceae-Anthemideae. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Botany Series 23
  • CANDOLLE, A.P. DE. 1838. Compositae. Prodromus 6. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1865. Compositae. Flora capensis 3
  • HUTCHINSON, J. 1916. Notes on African Compositae. Kew Bulletin 1916

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