- Family:
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Osteospermum L.

[FTEA]
Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate or less often opposite, sometimes in a rosette, petiolate or sessile, entire or variously divided up to bipinnatipartite
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula solitary and terminal or arranged in terminal corymbose cymes or rarely racemes, heterogamous, radiate; phyllaries free, 1–3(–4)-seriate; receptacle flat or slightly convex, epaleate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Ray florets with a short tube and a narrow oblong ray, this rounded and minutely 3-dentate distally, staminodes sometimes present; style linear, glabrous, with long linear obtuse branches with stigmatose swellings along the margins; disc florets with a gradually widening tube, 5-lobed; anthers sagittate at the base with ± tailed auricles, with ovate apical appendage; style shallowly cleft, the lobes connate, with a collar of sweeping hairs at or slightly below the bifurcation, papillae absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes hard, straight or slightly incurved, triangular or terete, sometimes 3–9-ridged, smooth, rugose or tuberculate, with or without wings, without or rarely with a rostrum; pappus absent.
[FTEA]
Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Morphology General Habit
- Unarmed or spinescent shrubs or small trees
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence of solitary capitula or of few capitula together in a corymb
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula radiate; involucre broadly campanulate; phyllaries 2–3-seriate, with scarious margins; receptacle glabrous or pubescent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Ray florets female, fertile, with a short tube and a 4-veined yellow ray with 3 minute lobes distally, 4 staminodes, and a filiform style with obtuse branches; disc florets functionally male with a glandular-hairy tube and 5 ovate-triangular lobes; anthers with sagittate base, apically with ovate appendage; ovary oblong-linear, style minutely bifid, glandular, the arms pilose
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a globose drupe, shiny blue or black, with a hard globose or ellipsoid endocarp with a smooth surface or with raised nerves; pappus absent.
Native to:
Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
California, France, Hawaii, New Mexico, New South Wales, New Zealand North, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Queensland, Sicilia, South Australia, Spain, Victoria, Western Australia
- Osteospermum acanthospermum (DC.) Norl.
- Osteospermum aciphyllum DC.
- Osteospermum afromontanum Norl.
- Osteospermum amplectens (Harv.) Norl.
- Osteospermum angolense Norl.
- Osteospermum apterum (B.Nord.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
- Osteospermum armatum Norl.
- Osteospermum asperulum (DC.) Norl.
- Osteospermum attenuatum Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
- Osteospermum auriculatum (S.Moore) Norl.
- Osteospermum australe B.Nord.
- Osteospermum bidens Thunb.
- Osteospermum bolusii (Compton) Norl.
- Osteospermum breviradiatum Norl.
- Osteospermum burttianum B.Nord.
- Osteospermum calcicola (J.C.Manning & Goldblatt) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
- Osteospermum calendulaceum L.f.
- Osteospermum ciliatum P.J.Bergius
- Osteospermum connatum DC.
- Osteospermum corymbosum L.
- Osteospermum crassifolium (O.Hoffm.) Norl.
- Osteospermum dentatum Burm.f.
- Osteospermum elsieae Norl.
- Osteospermum grandidentatum DC.
- Osteospermum grandiflorum DC.
- Osteospermum hafstroemii Norl.
- Osteospermum herbaceum L.f.
- Osteospermum hirsutum Thunb.
- Osteospermum hispidum Harv.
- Osteospermum hyoseroides (DC.) Norl.
- Osteospermum ilicifolium L.
- Osteospermum imbricatum L.
- Osteospermum incanum Burm.f.
- Osteospermum junceum P.J.Bergius
- Osteospermum karooicum (Bolus) Norl.
- Osteospermum lanceolatum DC.
- Osteospermum leptolobum (Harv.) Norl.
- Osteospermum microcarpum (Harv.) Norl.
- Osteospermum microphyllum DC.
- Osteospermum moniliferum L.
- Osteospermum monocephalum (Oliv. & Hiern) Norl.
- Osteospermum monstrosum (Burm.f.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
- Osteospermum montanum Klatt
- Osteospermum muricatum E.Mey. ex DC.
- Osteospermum nervosum (Hutch.) Norl.
- Osteospermum nordenstamii J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
- Osteospermum norlindhianum J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
- Osteospermum nyikense Norl.
- Osteospermum oppositifolium (Aiton) Norl.
- Osteospermum pinnatilobatum Norl.
- Osteospermum pinnatum (Thunb.) Norl.
- Osteospermum polycephalum (DC.) Norl.
- Osteospermum polygaloides L.
- Osteospermum potbergense A.R.Wood & B.Nord.
- Osteospermum pterigoideum Klatt
- Osteospermum pyrifolium Norl.
- Osteospermum rigidum Aiton
- Osteospermum rosulatum Norl.
- Osteospermum rotundifolium (DC.) Norl.
- Osteospermum scariosum DC.
- Osteospermum sinuatum (DC.) Norl.
- Osteospermum spathulatum (DC.) Norl.
- Osteospermum spinescens Thunb.
- Osteospermum spinigerum (Norl.) Norl.
- Osteospermum spinosum L.
- Osteospermum striatum Burtt Davy
- Osteospermum subulatum DC.
- Osteospermum thodei Markötter
- Osteospermum tomentosum (L.f.) Norl.
- Osteospermum triquetrum L.f.
- Osteospermum vaillantii (Decne.) Norl.
- Osteospermum volkensii (O.Hoffm.) Norl.
Osteospermum L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 923 (1753)
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- B. Nord. in K. Bremer, Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 375 (1994)
- G.P. 2: 455 (1873)
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 395 (1754)
- Norl., Stud. Calend. 1: 98–357 (1943)
- Sp. Pl.: 923 (1753)
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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