9061.060 Pentanema Cass.

VICOA Cass.

Beentje, H.J. (ed.) (2002) Compositae (Part 2) Flora of Tropical East Africa

Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (2000) Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera Strelitzia 10

Wild, H. (1980) The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area, 12. Inuleae (continued). Kirkia 12(1) 23-113

Description of the genus

Annual herb. Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite. Inflorescence a lax cymose terminal panicle. Phyllaries in many rows, glandular, imbricate, narrow with scarious margins and an acute or acuminate apex. Capitula homogamous (in ours); disk florets bisexual, orange-yellow, narrowly tubular, shortly 5-lobed, glandular. Receptacle without scales. Anther-bases sagittate, tailed; style-arms flattened, wider at the apex. Achenes narrowly ellipsoid (in ours), rounded at the apex. Pappus in 1 row, slender and minutely barbellate.

Worldwide: 18 species from C Asia to Sri Lanka, naturalised elsewhere; 1 species (P. indicum) probably native to Africa

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

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indicum (L.) LingT

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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Pentanema.
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