8957.010 Neojeffreya Cabrera

Grey-pubescent herbs. Leaves sessile, alternate, decurrent down the stem; margin entire or dentate. Capitula small, heterogamous, crowded into small clusters terminal on the branches or in the upper leaf axils. Corolla sordid-whitish. Involucre ovoid or campanulate. Phyllaries few-seriate; outer shorter; inner pubescent, deciduous with the flowers; apex subulate or caudate. Receptacle (in ours) with aristate, plumose, scales. Outer female florets filiform, 2-3-dentate. Bisexual disk florets few, tubular, 5-lobed. Achenes small, 4-5-sided. Pappus of numerous minutely barbellate setae.

Derivation of name: after Charles Jeffrey, botanist at Kew (1934-).

Worldwide: 1 species in Africa and Madagascar

Malawi: 1 taxon.