Arctotis L.
Annual to perennial herbs; stems trailing or erect; latex 0. Lvs in rosettes and alternate on stems, lyrate-pinnatifid, toothed, or entire. Capitula axillary, solitary, on long peduncles. Involucral bracts free, in several series; outermost row small, narrowed to a linear to spathulate appendage; inner rows progressively longer, oblong, without appendages. Receptacle flat, alveolate, ciliate; scales 0. Outer florets ligulate, ♀. Disc florets ⚥ or the inner ♂. Achenes obovoid to obconic, with 2 furrows on the dorsal side. Pappus of 2 rows of oblong scarious scales, the outer very short, the inner longer.
50 spp., South Africa, Namibia, Angola. Naturalised sp. 1.
