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Manual of the New Zealand Flora.

Tribe 3. InuloideÆ

Tribe 3. InuloideÆ.

Heads heterogamous and discoid (rarely radiate in some foreign genera), or homogamous through the suppression of the female florets. Anther-cells produced at the base into filiform tails. Style-branches linear, obtuse, never ending in an appendage.

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A. Female florets tubular, filiform, in from 2 to many series, always outnum-bering the. hermaphrodite ones.

Herbs. Heads corymbose or clustered, rarely solitary. Pappus-hairs capillary, not barbellate 9. Gnaphalium.

B. Female florets tubular, filiform, in 1 or 2 series, sometimes altogether wanting, fewer in number than the hermaphrodite ones (sometimes outnumbering the hermaphrodite ones in Raoulia).

Herbs, usually alpine, Stems creeping or cæspitose, often compacted into hard rounded masses. Heads solitary, small, sessile. Involueral bracts often white and radiating 10. Raoulia.
Herbs or small shrubs. Heads solitary or corymbose. Pappus-hairs various, often barbellate. Receptacle naked 11. Helichrysum.
Shrubs with narrow leaves. Heads corymbose. Receptacle narrow; florets few, usually subtended by chaffy scales 12. Cassinia.
Herbs. Flower-heads numerous, aggregated into a globose compound head surrounded by scarious bracts. Female florets wanting. Receptacle with scales between the florets 13. Craspedia.