Delairea
Climbing perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, palmately lobed or angled; stipules present. Capitula cylindric, terminal or axillary, in corymbose panicles; involucral bracts 1-seriate, free, equal, herbaceous with scarious margins; bracteoles present below capitula; receptacle more or less flat, naked, pitted, pits with a raised toothed rim. Florets bisexual, fertile; corolla slightly dilated at base, tubular in middle, campanulate above, 5-lobed, yellow; anthers tailed; style with filiform papillose branches. Cypselas obloid, ribbed, glabrous; pappus 1-seriate, of many fine barbellate bristles, caducous.
1 species, native to South Africa.
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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