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| Distribution | Africa, Asia, Central, North and South America, New Zealand, with about 90 species.
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Habit
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Perennial, biennial or annual herbs.
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Leaves
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Leaves alternate, flat with entire margins, tomentose on both surfaces.
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Flowers
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Capitula many in corymbs. Involucral
bracts papery, coloured, stereome divided. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Outer florets filiform, yellow.
Central florets perfect, yellow. Anthers with flat appendages. Style branches truncate, with hairs apically.
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Fruit
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Cypselae oblong, with short clavate twin
hairs. Pappus bristles capillary, barbellate, free.
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Seeds
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n = 8, 9, 10, 14, 20
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