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Genus: Schistostephium

[= Peyrousea]

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid II > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Anthemideae

There are 12 species, native to south-tropical Africa, with 11 found in southern Africa.  

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI) and Flora of Zimbabwe.

Schistostephium artemisiifolium

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Schistostephium crataegifolium (Golden Flat-flower)

Bergkruie [Afrikaans]; kobo-ea-mare-na, kobo-kholo, leapi-lehakanya [South Sotho]

See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 320; Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 114.

Schistostephium flabelliforme

 

Schistostephium griseum

 

Schistostephium heptalobum

See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 320; Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 114. and Flora of Zimbabwe.

Schistostephium hippiifolium

 

Schistostephium oxylobum

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Schistostephium rotundifolium

imadliwazimbuzi [Zulu]

See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 320.

Schistostephium scandens

 

Schistostephium umbellata

See Eastern Cape wild flowers by John Manning, Auriol Batten & Hertha Bokelmann p. 286.

Schistostephium umbellatum

 

Publications

  • Bremer, K. 1977. The genus Peyrousea (Compositae). Botaniska Notiser 130: 493-497.