Brachythrix
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Vernonioideae
Tribe: Vernonieae
Genus: Brachythrix
Wild & G.V.Pope
Type species
Brachythrix stolzii
(S.Moore) Wild & G.V.Pope

Brachythrix is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[1][2] They are native to tropical south-central and eastern Africa.[3]

These are perennial herbs that produce new stems annually from a woody, sometimes woolly-tufted rootstock. The roots may have tubers. The stem usually branches and has many alternately arranged leaves. The herbage is hairy, with several different types of long and short hairs. The flower heads are solitary, clustered, or arranged in cymes. They contain purple disc florets. The fruit is an angular, gland-dotted cypsela with a pappus of scales or short barbed hairs.[3]

Species[4]
  • Brachythrix brevipapposa
  • Brachythrix glomerata
  • Brachythrix lugarensis
  • Brachythrix malawiensis
  • Brachythrix pawekiae
  • Brachythrix sonchoides
  • Brachythrix stolzii

References

  1. โ†‘ Wild, H. and G. V. Pope. (1978). Brachythrix: a new genus of the tribe Vernonieae (Compositae) from South Central Africa. Kirkia 2(1), 25-30.
  2. โ†‘ Tropicos, Brachythrix Wild & G.V. Pope
  3. 1 2 Brachythrix. Flora Zambesiaca.
  4. โ†‘ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist


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