8930.000 Chrysocoma L.

Shrublets. Leaves ericoid, alternate, sessile, linear to oblanceolate, entire, rarely dentate. Capitula discoid, or rarely radiate, usually solitary and terminal, sometimes corymbose, pedunculate. Involucre campanulate; phyllaries in 4 rows, imbricate with membranous margins. Receptacle flat or convex, sometimes honeycombed. Ray florets, if present, female, yellow or blue. Disc florets yellow; tube often gradually widened above, 5-lobed. Pappus in 2 rows; outer row of short, acute to obtuse scales, basally weakly united, rarely reduced to a ring.

Worldwide: 18 species in southern Africa: South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia

Mozambique: 2 taxa.