Citation: Hilliard & B.L. Burtt, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82:209 (1981).

Derivation: Latin veilus, wool; Greek phyton, plant; referring to the dense vestiture of the whole plant.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herbs with dense woolly vestiture; leaves basal and cauline, alternate, sessile, entire.

Inflorescence a dense corymb-like terminal cluster of small subsessile discoid heterogamous capitula; involucres cylindrical, c. 4-seriate; bracts scarious, with conspicuous patent petaloid laminae on oblong woolly claws, mostly subequal, with a few shorter outer bracts; innermost bracts embracing the adjacent florets; receptacle convex, naked; outer florets female, filiform; style branches terete, truncate, with papillose apices; inner florets bisexual, tubular, 5-merous, fertile; corolla narrowly cylindrical, glandular; anthers tailed at the base, with short obtuse terminal appendages; style branches terete, truncate, with papillose apices.

Achenes all similar, terete, sparsely papillose; pappus uniseriate, of barbellate bristles weakly cohering at the base, deciduous.

Distribution:  About 6 species in South Africa.

Biology: No text

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