Arctotheca J.C.Wendl.
Annual to perennial herbs; stems trailing or erect; latex 0. Lvs in basal rosettes and alternate on stems, lyrate-pinnatifid to 2-pinnatisect, toothed. Capitula axillary, solitary, on long peduncles. Involucral bracts free, in several series; outermost row small, narrowed to a linear appendage; inner rows progressively longer, oblong, without appendages. Receptacle flat or weakly convex, alveolate, glabrous; scales 0. Outer florets ligulate, sterile. Disc florets ⚥. Achenes obovoid to obconic, without furrows on the dorsal side. Pappus of 1 row of usually 4-8 short oblong scarious scales.
4 spp., South Africa. Naturalised sp. 1.
