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Asteraceae - Gnaphalieae - Anisochaeta DC.

Description:

  • Scandent shrubs, sometimes wide-climbing
  • Leaves alternate, petiolate, broadly ovate, coarsely incised-dentate to repand
  • Capitula discoid, pedunculate, small, in divaricately branched panicles
  • Involucre campanulate; bracts in 5 rows, imbricate; stereome undivided
  • Receptacle epaleate, honeycombed
  • Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corolla white or creamy white, tubular below with 5 long, narrow lobes equalling tube
  • Anthers calcarate, caudate, with lanceolate, apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised
  • Style branches obtuse, dorsally with obtuse sweeping hairs not reaching furcation; stigmatic surfaces basally separated but apically confluent
  • Cypselas 4- or 5-angled, glandular
  • Pappus of elongated scale-like awns

Nomenclature:

  • Anisochaeta DC.
    • Candolle: 109 (1836)
    • Harvey: 57 (1865)
    • Hilliard: 278 (1977)
    • Anderberg: 47 (1991)
    • Anderberg: 323 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa: Monotypic: Anisochaeta mikanioides DC., endemic, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

References:

  • ANDERBERG, A.A. 1991. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104
  • ANDERBERG, A.A. 1994. Tribes Inuleae, Plucheeae, Gnaphalieae. In K. Bremer, Asteraceae, cladistics and classification. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • CANDOLLE, A.P. DE. 1836. Compositae. Prodromus 5. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1865. Compositae. Flora capensis 3
  • HILLIARD, O.M. 1977. Compositae in Natal. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg

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