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

[FTEA]
Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Morphology General Habit
- Scapose herbs with perennial rootstock becoming ± woody with age
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves all in a basal rosette, prostrate or ± ascending, petiolate or with a petioloid base, pinnately veined, entire to pinnatifid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Scape
- Scapes 1–several from each rosette, sometimes precocious, erect, bracteate or ebracteate, simple, 1-headed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula solitary, terminal, erect, heterogamous, apparently radiate but with all florets bilabiate, the female with usually much reduced staminodes; involucre cylindrical to campanulate; phyllaries ± 3-seriate, imbricate, the outer shorter, the inner ± subequal and with ± membranous glabrous margins, glabrous inside
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Outer florets female; corolla of outermost florets with narrow tube, radiating 3-toothed lower lip and upper lip of 2 narrow, short, linear often curled lobes, other female florets with short non-radiating lower lip; style branches very short, ovoid to club-shaped Inner florets hermaphrodite, the corolla with broader tube and short broader lower lip; anthers strongly sagittate or tailed; style branches short, oblong, obtuse
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes all similar, ± fusiform, apically narrowed or distinctly beaked, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 5–10-ribbed, brownish, usually pilose; pappus of numerous barbellate bristles, whitish, tawny or purplish.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Scapose herbs with perennial rootstock
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves all in a basal rosette
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Scape
- Scapes 1–several from each rosette, sometimes precocious, simple, 1-headed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Capitula solitary, terminal, heterogamous, apparently radiate but with all florets 2-lipped
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Outer florets female; corolla with narrow tube, radiating 3-toothed lower lip and upper lip of 2 narrow, short lobes Inner florets bisexual, the corolla with broader tube and short broader lower lip; anthers strongly sagittate or tailed; style-arms short, oblong, obtuse
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes all similar, ± fusiform, apically narrowed or distinctly beaked, somewhat flattened; pappus of numerous barbellate bristles, whitish, tawny or purplish.
- Distribution
- Afroasian genus of some 22 species, centered in southern Africa and Madagascar.
[FZ]
Compositae, G. V. Pope. Flora Zambesiaca 6:1. 1992
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
- Style branches of hermaphrodite flowers shortly and broadly lanceolate, the tips rounded or subacute with short pollen-sweeping hairs outside.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes narrowly flask-shaped, ± attenuate above or prolonged into an apical beak, 4–10-ribbed, sparsely puberulous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Pappus several-seriate of minutely barbellate setae.
- Morphology General Habit
- Scapigerous perennial herbs from woody rootstocks; rootcrowns lanate, roots numerous spreading thong-like or fusiform.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves radical, entire serrulate to dentate or sinuate-pinnatifid, sometimes villose to closely tomentose on the lower surface, usually glabrescent Scapes 1-several, ebracteate in the Flora Zambesiaca area, often appearing before or with the young leaves, sometimes elongating after seed-set, erect, densely villose-tomentose towards the apex, glabrescent in the lower part.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula solitary, heterogamous, bilabiate-radiate; corollas all 2-lipped, the outer lip strap-shaped or shortly elliptic (2)3-denticulate, the inner lip of 2 small linear lobes.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Involucre
- Involucres broadly obconic; phyllaries numerous, imbricate, increasing in size to the inside, narrowly lanceolate or linear-triangular.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Receptacle
- Receptacle flat, shallowly alveolate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Inner florets hermaphrodite or functionally male. Outer florets female the marginal ones radiate and the submarginal ones equally bilabiate, staminodes usually present (often absent in Gerbera piloselloides).
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corollas white yellow pink or red.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens Anthers
- Anthers with narrowly ovate apical appendages, and sagittate bases with tails entire or ciliate.
Native to:
Angola, Assam, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Hainan, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Northern Provinces, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Benin, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Jawa, Korea, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Panamá, Réunion, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is.
- Gerbera ambigua Sch.Bip.
- Gerbera aurantiaca Sch.Bip.
- Gerbera bojeri Sch.Bip.
- Gerbera cordata (Thunb.) Less.
- Gerbera crocea Kuntze
- Gerbera diversifolia Humbert
- Gerbera elliptica Humbert
- Gerbera emirnensis Baker
- Gerbera galpinii Klatt
- Gerbera grandis J.C.Manning & Simka
- Gerbera hypochaeridoides Baker
- Gerbera jamesonii Adlam
- Gerbera leandrii Humbert
- Gerbera linnaei Cass.
- Gerbera ovata J.C.Manning & Simka
- Gerbera parva N.E.Br.
- Gerbera perrieri Humbert
- Gerbera petasitifolia Humbert
- Gerbera piloselloides (L.) Cass.
- Gerbera serrata Druce
- Gerbera sylvicola Johnson, N.R.Crouch & T.J.Edwards
- Gerbera tomentosa DC.
- Gerbera viridifolia (DC.) Sch.Bip.
- Gerbera wrightii Harv.
Gerbera L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Opera Var.: 247 (1758)
Accepted by
- (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/653.7 epublication.
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 488 (1954)
- F.T.A. 3: 445
- Taxon 9: 160 (1960).Nom. cons.
- in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1817: 34
Flora Zambesiaca
- C. Jeffrey in Kew Bull. 21: 211 (1967).
- H.V. Hansen in Opera Bot. 78: 5–36 (1985).
- Hilliard, Compos. Natal: 586 (1977).
- Opera Var.: 247 (1758) nom. conserv.
- Wild in Kirkia 8: 202 (1972).
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Hansen in Opera Bot. 78: 1–36 (1985).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- C. Jeffrey in K.B. 21: 211 (1967)
- H.V. Hansen in Nordic J. Bot. 5: 451-453 (1985)
- H.V. Hansen in Nordic J. Bot. 8: 61 (1988)
- H.V. Hansen in Opera Bot. 78: 1–36 (1985)
- K. Bremer, Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 100 (1994), nom. conserv.
- Opera Varia: 247 (1758)
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