Iodocephalopsis Bunwong & H.Rob., Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 122(3): 358. 2009.

Bunwong, Sukhonthip, Chantaranothai, Pranom & Keeley, Sterling C., 2014, Revisions and key to the Vernonieae (Compositae) of Thailand, PhytoKeys 37, pp. 25-101 : 73

Iodocephalopsis Bunwong & H.Rob., Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 122(3): 358. 2009.

Type.

Iodocephalopsis eberhardtii (Gagnep.) Bunwong & H.Rob. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 122(3): 358. 2009.

Description.

Erect perennial herbs. Stems erect, pubescent with T-shaped hairs. Leaves simple, alternate, petiolate; lamina ovate, pubescent. Capitulescences laxly cymose with capitula solitary or 2 or 3 in a group. Capitula discoid, campanulate, pedunculate, homogamous; florets fertile. Involucre campanulate. Phyllaries imbricate with serrate or entire margins. Florets 15-25; corollas funnelform, purplish or whitish; corolla lobes 5. Anthers 5, purplish or yellowish, syngenesious, exerted. Styles purple, 2-branched, without enlarged basal node, inner surface covered with stigmatic papillae, outer surface and lower style shaft covered with sweeping hairs reaching to below style bifurcation. Achenes 7-10-ribbed, glandular, with vermicular series of idioblasts on the surfaces; achene walls with distinct fibrous layer inside, without raphids, base without carpopodium. Pollen echinolophate, sub-3-colporate, pores in short colpus formed of two partially fused lacunae.

One species is recognized in Thailand.