Rhodanthe Lindl.

First published in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 20: t. 1703 (1834)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Australia.

Descriptions

Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. & Hind, D. J. N. (Eds). (2019). Flora of Iraq, Volume 6: Compositae.Kew Publishing

Morphology General Habit
Annual or perennial herbs or rarely subshrubs, tomentose to glabrescent, with alternate, entire, lanceolate to ovate or elliptical leaves
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
Capitula terminal on branches, usually homogamous and discoid with all flowers hermaphrodite and fertile, rarely heterogamous and disciform with some marginal florets female, frequently some central florets sterile; involucre campanulate or ellipsoid; phyllaries  multiseriate,  glumaceous,  outer  ovate and frequently dorsally lanate, inner with a large, usually white or coloured, lanceolate appendage; receptacle flat, sometimes alveolate, sometimes even fimbrillate or paleate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corollas 5-lobed, tubular, ± widened above
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Achenes angular, terete or ± compressed, glabrous to densely villous; pappus setae plumose.
Distribution
About 40 species in Australia and southern Africa.
Etymology
From the Gr. ρος, ros, pink and άνθος, anthos, flower – probably from the reddish corollas.
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Sources

  • Flora of Iraq

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0