Garuleum
Genus of plants
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Garuleum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to southern Africa.[2][3] Garuleum is one of eight genera of Calenduleae.
| Garuleum | |
|---|---|
| |
| Garuleum sonchifolium | |
Scientific 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