9501.000 Dicoma
Pope, G.V. (1992) Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1)
Wild, H. (1972) The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 3. Mutisieae. Kirkia 8(2) 173-207
Description of the genus
Annual herbs or suffrutices with annual stems, often woolly-hairy and thistle-like. Leaves alternate, sessile and clasping the stem. Capitula homogamous and discoid, all florets bisexual or heterogamous, the outer florets neuter. Phyllaries many-seriate, imbricate, usually spine-tipped. Receptacular scales 0. Ray florets usually 0. Disk floret corollas yellowish to creamy-brown or purplish to whitish. Achenes ± flattened-turbinate, densely hispid. Pappus of 2-several series of setae. Worldwide: 65 species in tropical and South Africa, Madagascar, Socotra and India Zimbabwe: 7 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| anomala Sond. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| galpinii F.C. Wilson | S | |
| gerrardii Harv. ex F.C. Wilson | N,W,C,E,S | |
| macrocephala DC. | W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| niccolifera Wild [NrEnd] [LR-lc] | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| schinzii O. Hoffm. | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| tomentosa Cass. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
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