Nolletia Cassini 1825
Creators: name: Herman, Paul P. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Nolletia

description: Key to the species of Nolletia   
1. Female florets shortly radiate, cypselae with oblong epicarpic cells.......................................................................... 2  
- Female florets filiform, cypselae with oblong or circular epicarpic cells................................................................... 4  
 2. Plants appressed pubescent but not glandular, capitula 14 mm in diameter..................................... 1. N. annemarieae   
- Plants spreading pubescent and glandular-hairy, capitula 8–10 mm in diameter........................................................ 3  
 3. Leaves narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, (3–)4–15(–22) × (0.8–)1.0–2.5(–3.0) mm....................2. N. gariepina   
 - Leaves linear, (7–)10–30(–35) × 0.5–1.5 mm....................................................................................... 3. N. tenuifolia   
4. Cypsela surfaces dull, pale to dark or reddish brown, with oblong epicarpic cells...................................................... 5  
- Cypsela surfaces shiny, orange or honey-coloured, with circular epicarpic cells...................................................... 9  
5. Involucral bracts without yellow, orange or almost black oil sacs.............................................................................. 6  
- Involucral bracts with yellow, orange or almost black oil sacs................................................................................... 7  
 6. Involucral bracts appressed pubescent, peduncle glabrous or sparsely appressed pubescent, always stipitate-glandular, leaves ciliate, lower surface appressed pubescent............................................................................5. N. jeanettae   
 - Involucral bracts glabrous, peduncle glabrous, rarely with a few stipitate-glands, leaves glabrous..... 8. N. ruderalis   
 7. Capitula solitary, leaves densely set, imbricate and appressed to the stem................................................ 4. N. ciliaris   
- Capitula corymbosely arranged, leaves spreading, if appressed to the stem, not imbricate......................................... 8  
 8. Plants with simple, upright stems, sparsely branched in upper part into few-headed corymbose synflorescences, leaves few, appressed to stem and inconspicuous (bigger in Mpumalanga and some KZN specimens)......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7. N. rarifolia   
 - Plants branched below middle into simple stems, branching upwards into multi-headed corymbose synflorescences, leaves distinct, spreading..................................................................................................................... 6. N. welmaniae   
 9. Plants sparsely leafy, leaves filiform, cypselae with scattered, paired, circular epicarpic cells, each pair with a twin hair between them................................................................................................................................12. N. annetjieae   
- Plants mostly densely leafy, leaves linear, narrowly obovate, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, cypsela surfaces covered with circular epicarpic cells, each cell with a twin hair............................................................................... 10  
 10. Leaves, stems and peduncles spreading pubescent........................................................................ 9. N. vanhoepeniae   
- Leaves, stems and peduncle glabrous to appressed pubescent................................................................................... 11  
 11. Plants up to 1.3 m high, leaves 10–45 × 2–5 mm broad, growing along rivers................................ 10. N. zambesica   
 - Plants up to 0.6 m, rarely up to 1 m high, leaves (10–)15–20(–30) × up to 2 mm broad, growing in desert or semidesert conditions........................................................................................................................11. N. chrysocomoides
description: Published as part of Herman, Paul P. J., 2013, Cypsela morphology in the genus Nolletia (Asteraceae, Astereae) and a revision of the genus, pp. 1-44 in Phytotaxa 122 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.122.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5079410