Glossocardia
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves basal and cauline, petiolate, alternate, sometimes opposite above, simple to pinnatisect. Capitula radiate, in loose terminal cymes or solitary on scape-like peduncules; involucral bracts 1–4-seriate, outer ones herbaceous, inner ones with scarious margins; receptacle flat to slightly convex, with scarious caducous scales. Ray florets 0–12, female or sterile, 1-seriate, ligulate, yellow, white, pink, reddish or purple; style with short glabrous branches. Disc florets numerous, bisexual or functionally male; corolla campanulate, 4- or 5-lobed, yellow to brownish; anthers obtuse at base, with a short apical appendage; style bilobed, branches filiform, with subulate terminal appendages. Cypselas oblong to linear-lanceolate, strongly compressed, ribbed, black; pappus of 2 barbed awns or a small corona.
12 species, from India to Vietnam, Australia (2 species) and the Pacific.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 652–666. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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