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Hilliard, O.M. (1983) Asteraceae, Inuleae, Gnaphaliinae Flora of Southern Africa 33-7-2
Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (2000) Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera Strelitzia 10
Annual or perennial herbs. Stems few to many from the crown, prostrate or ascending, simple or branched, leafy. Leaves alternate, small to medium; apex subacute or obtuse; base much narrowed, petiole-like margins flat, entire, both surfaces thinly or thickly covered in grey or white-woolly hairs. Capitula disciform, very small, few or many in woolly glomerules, arranged on branch tips. Phyllaries in 3-5 rows; backs woolly; lamina sometimes purplish; tip opaque, white. Receptacle nearly smooth, without scales. Florets 10-40, yellow, often red-tipped. Pappus bristles subplumose in the upper part. Worldwide: 7 species in South Africa; V. dealbatum introduced into Australia and New Zealand Mozambique: 1 taxon. |
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