Dioecious trees or
shrubs. Leaves alternate, persistently tomentellous beneath.
Capitula (in ours) arranged in panicles, racemes or clusters.
Capitula unisexual, disciform; receptacular scales 0. Phyllaries
imbricate. Male capitula smaller than the female, ovary abortive
or rudimentary; pappus sparse, barbellate, 1-seriate. Female
capitula: anthers 0; achenes subcylindric-fusiform,
c.8-ribbed, ± pubescent; pappus of barbellate setae in
several series. Worldwide: 15 species, tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar. Mozambique: 3 taxa. |
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