Charieis
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Charieis (Greek, elegant, from the pleasing flowers). Compositae. Attractive hardy flower-garden annual. A small, branchy plant, 6-12 in. high, with blue or red aster-like fls., on long sts.: plant pubescent or hispid: lvs. oblong-spatulate or oblong-lanceolate, entire or remotely denticulate: heads many-fld., radiate, the ray-fls. pistillate, the disk-fls. perfect: achene obovate and compressed, those of the disk with plumose pappus: involucre scales in 2 rows.—One species, in the W. Cape region. Known as Kaulfussia in gardens. The genus Kaulfussia was founded by Nees in 1820; in 1817. however, the plant was described by Cassini as Charieis heterophylla.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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