Leaves alternate, sessile, scabrid, linear to lanceolate and elliptic, entire or remotely toothed
Capitula radiate, shortly pedunculate, terminal, solitary, several- to many-flowered
Involucre campanulate; bracts in 2 or 3 rows, free, lanceolate, setose or pilose
Receptacle flat or convex, epaleate
Ray florets female, fertile; corolla yellow or orange on both sides or white above; tube oblique on ovary, funnel-shaped, with somewhat oblong-elliptic lamina 4-8 × its length
Staminodes sometimes present
Style terete with linear, obtuse branches
Cypselas glabrous, kidney-shaped, convex and transversely rugose on convex side, keeled on reverse side, with ventral cavity
Anthers ecalcarate, caudate; with ovate, apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised
Style linear, convex, faintly 2-lobed at apex, with apical ring of hairs
Pappus 0
x = 10 (1 report)
Nomenclature:
Gibbaria Cass.
Cassini: 139 (1817)
Norlindh: 358 (1943)
Nordenstam: 375 (1994)
Osteospermum by Harvey
Harvey: 433 (1865)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa: Species 2, endemic: Gibbaria ilicifolia (L.) Norl. and G. scabra (Thunb.) Norl., Western and Eastern Cape
References:
CASSINI, A.H.G. DE. 1817. Aperçu des genres ou sous-genres nouveaux formés par M. Henri Cassini dans la famille des Synanthérées. Bulletin des sciences de la Société Philomatique de Paris 5
HARVEY, W.H. 1865. Compositae. Flora capensis 3
NORDENSTAM, B. 1994. Tribe Calenduleae. In K. Bremer, Asteraceae, cladistics and classification. Timber Press, Oregon
NORLINDH, T. 1943. Studies in the Calenduleae. 1. Monograph of the genera Dimorphotheca, Castalis, Osteospermum, Gibbaria and Chrysanthemoides. Gleerup, Lund
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