Osteospermum
Family: Asteraceae
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Arthur Chapman
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John L. Strother in Flora of North America (vol. 19, 20 and 21)
Perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs [annuals]. 5-150+ cm. Stems procumbent to erect [prostrate], glabrous or arachnose to piloso-hirtellous and/or stipitate-glandular. Leaves sessile or petiolate; blades orbiculate, elliptic, or oblong to oblanceolate, lanceolate, or linear, margins entire or denticulate [pinnately lobed], faces glabrous or sparsely arachnose and/or stipitate-glandular, often glabrate. Heads borne singly [in corymbiform to umbelliform arrays]. Involucres campanulate to hemispheric or broader, 5-20+ mm diam. Phyllaries 5-21+ in 1-2(-3+) series, lanceolate to lance-linear (apices ± attenuate). Receptacles flat to conic. Ray florets 10-21+ in ± 1 series; corollas whitish to purplish or yellow to orange, laminae ± oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate. Disc florets 12-50+, functionally staminate; corollas yellow or purplish, tubes shorter than the ± campanulate throats. Cypselae triquetrous-prismatic to clavate, often ± tuberculate or ridged and/or winged. x = 10.
Osteospermum calendulaceum
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Osteospermum clandestinum
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Osteospermum ecklonis
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Osteospermum fruticosum
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Osteospermum grandidentatum
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Osteospermum hyoseroides
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Osteospermum imbricatum
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Osteospermum microcarpum
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Osteospermum moniliferum
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Osteospermum monstrosum
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Osteospermum muricatum
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Osteospermum scariosum
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Osteospermum sinuatum
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Osteospermum spinescens
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Osteospermum vaillantii
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