Oedera sedifolia flowerheads

    Oedera sedifolia flowerheads
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

    The sessile or short-peduncled, yellow flowerheads of Oedera sedifolia grow solitary or sometimes in pairs from stem-tips.

    One row of female ray florets spread around the discs. The variable in number, often around 12 elliptic rays each as two marked channels on top. The rays are up to 8 mm long and 2 mm wide, ending in notched tips.

    The tubular, five-lobed disc florets are bisexual. They are small and there are from eight to thirty of them (Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).

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