Leaves alternate, entire, petiolate, obovate, ovate, lanceolate or elliptic, occasionally falcate, usually glabrous, occasionally pubescent on lower surface; midrib prominent
Inflorescence a lax, terminal spike
Flowers bisexual, slightly irregular, each subtended by an ovate floral bract, sessile or pedicellate
Perianth puberulous or tomentose with cream to rusty hairs, tubular, adaxially curved in bud, split abaxially by the emerging style; 3 adaxial segments fused into a sheath; abaxial segment separating to the short tube; limbs lanceolate-elliptic
Anthers linear-elliptic, sessile to subsessile, arising at base of perianth limbs
Ovary ovoid, covered with long, straight trichomes, with 1 ovule; style terete, adaxially curved, persistent; pollen presenter filiform, cylindric to cylindric-clavate, slightly geniculate at base
Hypogynous scales 4, lanceolate, acute, prominent
Fruit a globose achene with prominent basal attachment scar, covered in long, straight white hairs
Nomenclature:
Faurea Harv.
Harvey: 6: 375, t.15 (1847)
Welwitsch: 62 (1869)
Stapf et al.: 639 (1912)
Kotze & Phillips: 232 (1919)
Bosser & Rabevohitra: 58 (1991)
Marner in Brummitt & Marner: 2 (1993)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species ± 15, Africa and Madagascar
Southern Africa: Species 4, Northern Province to KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape
References:
BOSSER, J. & RABEVOHITRA, R. 1991. Proteaceae. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores: 57
BRUMMITT, R.K. & MARNER, S.K. 1993. Flora of tropical East Africa. Proteaceae
HARVEY, W.J. 1847. Short description of a new genus of plants belonging to the order Proteaceae from South Africa. London Journal of Botany 6
KOTZE, J.J. & PHILLIPS, E.P. 1919. A note on the genus Faurea Harv. South African Journal of Science 16
STAPF, O, PHILLIPS, E.P. & HUTCHINSON, J. 1912. Proteaceae. Flora capensis 5,1
WELWITSCH, F. 1869. Sertum Angolense ordo Proteaceae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 27
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