Calenduleae Cass.
Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, often strongly scented, lacking latex. Lvs usually alternate, rarely opposite. Involucral bracts in 1-3-(4) rows, usually with membranous margins. Capitula ⚥, heteromorphic with 1 row of ligulate rays florets (sometimes more in cvs) and actinomorphic disc florets. Receptacle without scales. Anthers distinctly tailed. Style branches each with 2 stigmatic lines. Achenes homomorphic or heteromorphic, smooth, ribbed or winged, terete or compressed, rarely transformed into a drupe (Chrysanthemoides); pappus 0.
Key
8 genera, c. 113 spp., Africa, Macaronesia, Europe, Mediterranean, E. to Caucasia, Iran, and Afghanistan.
The circumscription of genera adopted here follows that of Norlindh, T., in Heywood et al. (op. cit.).
