Calostephane

<i>Calostephane</i>

Calostephane

Genus of flowering plants

Calostephane is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae.[2][3]

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It is distributed in tropical southern Africa and Madagascar.[4][1]

These are annual herbs. The alternately arranged, toothed leaves are decurrent, the bases wrapping the stem to form wings. The flower heads are solitary or borne in loose panicle inflorescences. The heads contain yellow disc florets, and some species have yellow ray florets. The fruit has a pappus with an outer row of wide, membranous scales and an inner row of longer, narrower scales.[4]

Species[1][4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist". Archived from the original on 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2014-11-11.
  2. [2]
    Bentham, George. 1872. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 12: plate 1111 line drawing of Calostephane divaricata
  3. [3]
    Bentham, George. 1872. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 12: pages 10-11 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
  4. [4]
    Calostephane. Flora of Zimbabwe.
  5. [5]
    Calostephane. The Plant List.


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