Subscapose perennial herbs (in ours). Leaves radical and rosulate or cauline and alternate. Capitula solitary or arranged in a corymb. Involucre obconic, becoming cylindric-campanulate. Phyllaries 2-several-seriate. Receptacle without scales, pitted. Florets yellow. Achenes ± terete and equal-ribbed, rough with ascending projections on the ribs, distinctly beaked (in ours). Pappus 1-many-seriate of barbellate, persistent setae. Worldwide: c.200 species in northern temperate zones, southern Africa and South America Burundi: 2 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| newii Oliv. & Hiern[Agg] | ||
| urundica Babc. |