Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves
alternate. Capitula solitary, heterogamous;
florets tubular; outer neuter; inner bisexual.
Phyllaries many-seriate, imbricate, with a pectinate
or spiny, apical appendage. Receptacle densely setose; setae
twisted. Achenes ± laterally flattened, glabrous when
mature. Pappus many-seriate, of persistent, unequal,
barbellate, scale-like setae.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Centaurea Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1566
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
