Garuleum
Garuleum sonchifolium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Calenduleae
Genus: Garuleum
Cass.
Type species
Garuleum viscosum
(syn of G. pinnatifidum)[1]

Garuleum is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, native to southern Africa.[2][3] Garuleum is one of eight genera of Calenduleae.

Description

The style of disc florets are deeply bifurcate (forked) with linear lobes. They are covered with papillae to well below point of bifurcation.[4]

Species

The following species are recognised:[5]

  • Garuleum album S.Moore - Cape Provinces
  • Garuleum bipinnatum Less. - Cape Provinces
  • Garuleum latifolium Harv. - KwaZulu-Natal
  • Garuleum pinnatifidum DC. - Cape Provinces, Free State, Limpopo
  • Garuleum schinzii O.Hoffm. ex Schinz - Cape Provinces, Namibia
  • Garuleum sonchifolium (DC.) Norl. - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Provinces
  • Garuleum tanacetifolium (MacOwan) Norl. - Cape Provinces
  • Garuleum woodii Schinz - KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Limpopo, Lesotho

References

  1. ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist, Garuleum viscosum Cass.
  2. ↑ Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1819. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1819: 172-173. genus description in Latin, species description (Garuleum viscosum) and commentary in French
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Garuleum Cass.
  4. ↑ Manning, John; Goldblatt, Peter (2012). Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region : 1: the core Cape flora (PDF). Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute, SANBI. ISBN 978-1-919976-74-7. OCLC 852384288.
  5. ↑ "Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist search for Garuleum". Archived from the original on 2014-11-30. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
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