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GRAUANTHUS Fayed [family COMPOSITAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
GRAUANTHUS Fayed [family COMPOSITAE], in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München 15: 484 (1979); K. Bremer, Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 400 (1994)
Information
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, sessile, entire or lyrate-pinnatifid. Capitula disciform, in corymbose inflorescences; phyllaries 2–3-seriate, subequal, the innermost smallest; receptacle convex, tuberculate, epaleate. Female florets in 3 rows, tubular with 3–4 minute teeth, yellowish; inner florets hermaphrodite, yellow, tube infundibuliform; anthers with short triangular appendages; style-branches with short triangular appendages. Achenes ellipsoid-oblong, hairy; pappus absent. 
Range
2 species in tropical Africa.
GRAUANTHUS Fayed [family COMPOSITAE]
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