Description:

• Shrublets; young branches cobwebby
• Leaves alternate, linear to linear-oblong, margins entire or remotely dentate, usually revolute, mucronate, usually tomentose on lower surface
• Capitula radiate, relatively large, solitary, terminal, on long or short, glandular peduncles
• Involucre broadly campanulate; bracts in 1-3 rows; outermost sometimes herbaceous, papillose; inner oblong to linear, ciliate towards apex, with membranous margins
• Receptacle epaleate, honeycombed (areolate)
• Ray florets female, fertile; corolla yellow; tube shorter than minutely 3-toothed, oblong-linear lamina, generally with staminodes, with filiform lobe ventrally in sinus of tube
• Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corolla yellow; tube widening above, with 5 linear lobes
• Anthers calcarate and caudate; with oblong, apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised
• Style slender with rather short style branches, apical portion not or only slightly thickened and with short hairs mainly at border to shaft
• Cypselas oblong-obovoid, densely sericeous
• Pappus of stout, subulate, bristle-like marginally barbellate scales in 2 rows
• x = 10

Nomenclature:

• Heterolepis Cass.
  • Cassini: 26 (1820)
  • Harvey: 469 (1865)
  • Druce: 628 (1917)
  • Bremer: 257 (1994)
• Minurothamnus DC.
  • Candolle: 286 (1838)
  • Harvey: 124 (1865)
  • Merxmüller: 39 (1950)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa: Species 3, endemic, Western Cape