Verbesina
Annual or perennial herbs, shrubs or small trees. Leaves petiolate, opposite or alternate, simple, lobed or pinnatifid. Capitula hemispherical, in loose terminal cymes, or solitary in axils, long-pedunculate; involucral bracts 2–6-seriate, subequal, herbaceous, reflexed in fruit; receptacle convex to flat, pitted, with long caducous scales. Ray florets 1-seriate, female, fertile or sterile, ligulate, yellow, white or orange. Disc florets numerous, bisexual, tubular; corolla funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, yellow, white or orange; anthers obtuse at base, apex with a narrow acute appendage; style bilobed, branches linear with a terminal hairy subulate appendage. Cypselas obloid to obovoid, commonly winged; ray cypselas compressed or trigonous, pappus of 2 or 3 awns, or absent; disc cypselas compressed, pappus of usually 2 awns.
About 300 species, from North, Central and South America; 1 species naturalised in Australia.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 652–666. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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