Arctoteae Cass.
Annual herbs or perennial herbs to shrubs. Latex usually 0, sometimes present. Capitula usually heterogamous; outer florets ligulate, ♀ or neuter; ligules 3-toothed; inner florets tubular, ⚥ or ♂. Involucral bracts in (2)-4-8 imbricate series, free or united at base. Receptacle glabrous or ciliate, rarely bearing scales. Anther bases sagittate, rarely caudate. Style branches oblong, divergent (ray florets), or united almost to apex (disc florets). Pappus of (1)-2-(several) rows of free or rarely united scales or bristles.
Key
16 genera, 200 spp., mainly Africa, with minor extensions to the Middle East and Australia.
The Gorteriinae (represented in N.Z. by Gazania) were revised by Roessler, H., Mitt. Bot. Staatssamm. (München) 3 : 71-500 (1959).
