Many-stemmed, sparsely to much-branched erect to spreading, sometimes spinescent, shrubs, silky-greyish, villous or occasionally glabrous, aromatic
Leaves ericoid, mostly opposite but sometimes alternate, often fascicled, entire or pinnatisect with 1-7 linear lobes
Capitula radiate or disciform, small, sessile to pedunculate, solitary, racemose, umbellate racemose, or in spikes
Involucre subglobose; bracts in single row of 4-6 bracts, often with broad membranous margin, pubescent to glabrous
Receptacle paleate; paleae linear or lanceolate, those of marginal flowers totally or partially connate or totally free from each other, hard and thick or transparent membranous, woolly
Marginal florets 2 or 3, female, fertile; with or without strap-shaped lamina, corolla yellow, white or reddish, 2-4-toothed or -lobed lamina
Style terete with 2 linear, acute branches
Cypselas oblong-linear to narrowly obovate, slightly flattened, sometimes slightly angular, lanate or pilose
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MÜLLER, M.A.N. 1988. 'n Morfologiese en taksonomiese studie van die genusse Lasiospermum Lag. en Eriocephalus L. (Asteraceae) in suidelike Afrika. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch
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Welcome to Biodiversity Advisor 2.0!
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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