Citation: Cass., Dict. Sci. Nat. 56:174 (1828).

Derivation: Greek solen, pipe; gyne, woman; referring to the female tubular outer florets.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Small perennial herbs, rosette-forming; rhizome very short, vertical; leaves radical, crowded, flat, dentate.

Scapes axillary, erect, unbranched, with a few reduced leaves; capitula solitary, heterogamous; involucres hemispherical; bracts obovate to oblong, obtuse, herbaceous, imbricate in 2-4 subequal series; receptacle flat or convex, naked, shallowly pitted; outer florets female, tubular with a zygomorphic corolla tube, 3-4-seriate; disk florets fewer, bisexual, sterile, tubular, mostly 4-merous; anthers obtuse at the base with acute terminal appendages; style branches with short subulate appendages, papillose.

Achenes flattened, narrow-elliptic to obovate, beakless, smooth, non-glandular; pappus absent. (L. G. Adams (1979) Brunonia 2:43-65).

Distribution:  3 species in Australia, 2 of them apparently introduced in New Zealand; also in the western Pacific area.

Biology: No text

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