- Family: Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Stoebe L.
[FTEA]
Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubs or small trees
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, sessile, small, ericoid, involute, often fasciculate on abbreviated axillary shoots
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula small, homogamous, discoid, narrowly cylindric, 1-flowered, in dense clusters or spikes; phyllaries ± 4-seriate, the innermost scarious and longer than the outer; receptacle small, naked
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Florets hermaphrodite, narrowly infundibuliform, slightly 5-toothed; anthers sagittate, distal appendage lanceolate; style arms truncate and often penicillate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes glabrous, often 5-ribbed, with a cupuliform apical appendage; pappus of plumose bristles, basally connate or rarely missing.
Native to:
Cape Provinces
- Stoebe aethiopica L.
- Stoebe alopecuroides (Lam.) Less.
- Stoebe bruniades Levyns
- Stoebe capitata P.J.Bergius
- Stoebe cyathuloides Schltr.
- Stoebe fusca (L.) Thunb.
- Stoebe gomphrenoides P.J.Bergius
- Stoebe leucocephala DC.
- Stoebe microphylla DC.
- Stoebe montana Schltr. ex Levyns
- Stoebe muirii Levyns
- Stoebe nervigera (DC.) Sch.Bip.
- Stoebe phyllostachya (DC.) Sch.Bip.
- Stoebe prostrata L.
- Stoebe rosea Wolley-Dod
- Stoebe rugulosa Harv.
- Stoebe schultzii Levyns
Stoebe L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 831 (1753)
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- K. Bremer, Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 334 (1994)
- Levyns in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 3: 12 (1937)
- Sp. Pl.: 831 (1753)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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