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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Asteraceae
Chamaemelum

Citation: Miller, Gard. Dict. edn 4 (1754).

Derivation: Latin chamaemelon, the classical name for C. nobilis.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual and perennial herbs; leaves cauline, alternate, dissected.

Capitula terminal, long-pedunculate, few, radiate, heterogamous; involucres hemispherical; bracts herbaceous with scarious margins, imbricate in 2-4 unequal series; receptacle convex with broadly oblong scarious scales; ray florets female, uniseriate, ligulate; style branches linear, recurred, with papillose apices; disk florets tubular, 5-merous, bisexual, fertile; corolla glandular, dilated at the base to enclose the summit of the achene; anthers acute at the base with ovate apical appendages; style branches broadly linear, truncate with papillose apices.

Achenes obovoid, somewhat compressed laterally, glandular, fibbed on the inner side; pappus absent.

Distribution:  4 species in the Mediterranean region and southern Europe.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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