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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Steirodiscus

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: Senecioneae

The six species are endemic to southern Africa.  

Species native to southern Africa

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

Steiroidiscus capillaceus

 

Steiroidiscus gamolepis

 

Steiroidiscus linearilobus

 

Steiroidiscus schlechteri

 

Steirodiscus speciosus (Cabaroe) 

See West Coast wild flowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 208.

Steiroidiscus tagetes