Kleinia Miller

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 205

98. Kleinia Miller 1

Succulent perennial herbs or dwarf shrubs, glabrous (or with hairs only in leaf-axils). Leaves more or less fleshy, fusiform or compressed. Capitula solitary or in corymbs or panicles. In­ volerai bracts in one row; supplementary bracts usually present. Receptacle flat, without scales. Florets tubular, white, usually all hermaphrodite. Anthers obtuse at base. Style-branches conical at apex. Achenes subcylindrical, glabrous or shortly hairy; pappus of several rows of weakly dentate hairs.

Leaves terete or laterally compressed 1. mandraliscae Leaves flattened or sulcate on the adaxial surface, rounded on the abaxial surface 2. repens