Garuleum

Garuleum is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, native to southern Africa.[2][3] Garuleum is one of eight genera of Calenduleae.

Garuleum
Garuleum sonchifolium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Calenduleae
Genus: Garuleum
Cass.
Type species
Garuleum viscosum
(syn of G. pinnatifidum)[1]

Description

The style of disc florets are deeply bifurcate (forked) with linear lobes. They are covered with papillae to well below point of bifurcation.[4]

Species

The following species are recognised:[5]

  • Garuleum album S.Moore - Cape Provinces
  • Garuleum bipinnatum Less. - Cape Provinces
  • Garuleum latifolium Harv. - KwaZulu-Natal
  • Garuleum pinnatifidum DC. - Cape Provinces, Free State, Limpopo
  • Garuleum schinzii O.Hoffm. ex Schinz - Cape Provinces, Namibia
  • Garuleum sonchifolium (DC.) Norl. - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Provinces
  • Garuleum tanacetifolium (MacOwan) Norl. - Cape Provinces
  • Garuleum woodii Schinz - KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Limpopo, Lesotho

References
  1. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist, Garuleum viscosum Cass.
  2. Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1819. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1819: 172-173. genus description in Latin, species description (Garuleum viscosum) and commentary in French
  3. Tropicos, Garuleum Cass.
  4. Manning, John; Goldblatt, Peter (2012). Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region : 1: the core Cape flora (PDF). Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute, SANBI. ISBN 978-1-919976-74-7. OCLC 852384288.
  5. "Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist search for Garuleum". Archived from the original on 2014-11-30. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
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