2330.010 Guilleminea Kunth

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Description of the genus

Prostrate perennial herbs with entire, opposite leaves. Inflorescences consisting of dense, sessile, axillary ovoid heads. Flowers bisexual, solitary in the axil of each bract, subtended by 2 bracteoles. Sterile flowers 0. Tepals densely woolly, 1-veined, united for about half their length (in ours). Stamens 5. Capsule thin-walled, splitting irregularly. Seed flattened.

Worldwide: 5 species, occuring from southern USA to Argentina; G. densa an increasing tropical weed.

Botswana: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
densa (Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) Moq.	N,SW,SE	Description, Image

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