Arctotis L.
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102. Arctotis L. View in CoL 3
Annual or perennial herbs, often woody at the base. Leaves alternate, entire to lyrate-pinnatifid. Capitula solitary, axillary, pedunculate. Involucral bracts imbricate, in several rows, free. Receptacle flat, alveolate, without scales. Outer florets ligulate, female. Inner florets hermaphrodite; corolla 5-lobed. Achenes obovoid, with 3 wing-like ridges on one side; pappus of 2 rows of oblong scales, those of the inner row larger.
Literature: T. Norlindh, Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 58: 193-203 (1964).
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