Athrixia Ker Gawl.

Genus

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae

Characteristics

Perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile, with revolute margins. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, solitary or few together; phyllaries multiseriate, the outermost recurved; receptacle flat, naked. Florets: ray florets purple to white, 1-seriate, often with staminodes; disc florets yellow, 5-lobed, anthers sagittate, style branches obtuse, dorsally with hairs. Achenes oblong, sparsely hairy; pappus of barbellate bristles in two rows.
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