Cyathocline
Cass.
Herbs, annual, erect, branched, fragrant. Leaves alternate, pinnatisect. Heads in
terminal panicles, heterogamous, small, not rayed. Involucre hemispheric, bracts
subseriate, lanceolate, acute with scarious margins. Receptacle with contracted base and
naked concave top. Outer florets many-seriate, female fertile, filiform, 2-toothed. Disc
florets bisexual, usually sterile, regular, 5-cleft. Anthers appendaged at tip, bases truncate.
Style arms exerted, short. Achenes minute, oblong, smooth. Pappus absent.
Asiatic; ca 2 species, 2 in India.
Literature. FAYED, A. (1979). Revision der Grangeinae (Astcraceae) - Astereae, Mitt. Bot. Staatssam Munchen 15: 425-576. Cyalhocline 513-520.
Asiatic; ca 2 species, 2 in India.
Literature. FAYED, A. (1979). Revision der Grangeinae (Astcraceae) - Astereae, Mitt. Bot. Staatssam Munchen 15: 425-576. Cyalhocline 513-520.
KEY TO THE SPECIES
| 1a. Heads 3-4 mm across; flowers bright yellow | 1. Cyathocline lutea |
| b. Heads ca 5 mm across; flowers purplish white or purple | 2. Cyathocline purpurea |
