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Lasiopogon Cass., Bull. Soc. Philom. 75. 1818; DC., Prodr. 6: 246. 1838; Boiss., Fl. Or. 3: 224. 1875; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 287. 1881; Holub in Tutin et al., Fl. Europ. 4: 131. 1976; Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 145: 38. 1980; Smoljan. in Shishkin, Fl. USSR. 25: 404. 1990 (Engl. Transl.); Anderb. in Bremer, Asteraceae, Clad. & Class. 359. 1994; S. Chaudhary, Fl. Kingd. Saudi Arabia, 2(3): 1441. 2000; Boulos & Hind in Boulos, Fl. Egypt 3: 201. 2002.
Annual herbs, much branched, dense woolly. Leaves minute, linear or spathulate. Capitula heterogamous, disciform, conferrt in globose glomerules; phyllaries 2-seriate, sterome divided.Receptacle epaleate, smooth. Marginal florets filiform, female, outnumbering the central florets; central florets tubular, bisexual. Corollas 4-5 dentate, purple. Anthers caudate, appendices obtuse, endothecial tissues radial. Cypsela ellipsoid or oblong, often with 1-celled globose myxogenic twin hairs, sometimes glabrous; pappus uniseriate with barbellate or plumose setae.
A genus with 8 species, mainly distributed in South Africa but one species also in N Africa to Middle East and Pakistan.
Lower Taxon
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