Oedera dieterlenii (Phillips) N.G.Bergh, 2018

Bergh, Nicola G., Bentley, Joanne & Verboom, George Anthony, 2018, Classification of the Relhania generic group (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) revisited using molecular phylogenetic analysis, Phytotaxa 344 (2), pp. 101-132 : 118

3. Oedera dieterlenii (Phillips) N.G.Bergh , comb. nov.

Basionym: Nestlera dieterlenii Phillips (1917: 344) . Relhania dieterlenii (Phillips) Bremer (1976a: 29) .—Type: LESOTHO, stony and sunny spot on slopes of Roma Kloof, 1914, Jacotter 111, Herb. Dieterlen No. 1065 (PRE lectotype! [designated by Bremer 1976a]; P!, Z, isolectotypes).

Section IV. Oedera sect. Stipitatae N.G.Bergh , sect. nov.

— Comborhiza Anderberg & Bremer (1991: 1070) , syn. nov. — Type species: Comborhiza virgata (N.E.Br.) Anderberg & K.Bremer — Oreoleysera Bremer (1978b: 450) , syn. nov. — Type species: Oreoleysera montana (Bolus) K.Bremer

Type species: Oedera virgata (N.E.Brown) N.G.Bergh. ( Comborhiza virgata (N.E.Brown) Anderberg & K.Bremer )

Description: woody shrublets or subshrubs, two of the species resprouting from a subterranean rootstock. Leaves crowded on branches, alternate or fasciculate on lateral brachyblasts, entire, somewhat fleshy, with distinct midrib, both surfaces densely invested with glandular trichomes on elongate slender stalks. Capitula broad, solitary, sessile and axillary or on long peduncles or pedunculoid stems, sometimes flowering branches highly ramified to produce a racemose or cymose synflorescence. Receptacle epaleate, sometimes also shortly squamose. Ray florets 10–25; disc florets 25–125, perfect or possibly functionally male in one species (Oe. longipes ). Pappus of short more-or-less connate scales only (Oe. virgata ), or of scales and a few outer additional barbellate bristles on the disc florets. Cypselas glabrous to pilose, more densely pilose on ray cypselas.

Cytology: 2n = 14 ( Oedera virgata ; Bremer, 1976a).