Botanical name: Sclerocarpus africanus    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)

African Bonebract is an annual herb 25-50 cm or more tall, white hairy. Flower-heads are solitary, 0.8-1.2 cm in diameter. Involucre is bell-shaped; outer phyllaries ovate, about 1 cm, tip long-pointed, inner ovate-oblong, shorter than outer, densely velvety below. Ray florets are yellow, 1-seriate, broadly elliptic, apex 2-lobed. Disk florets are velvet-hairy. Leaves are oppositely arranged, alternate in upper part, ovate, 3.5-7 x 1.5-2 cm, both surfaces rough, base narrowing into the stalk, margin toothed, tip pointed or blunt. Seed-pods are oblong, pappus coroniform, of distinct or connate scales. African Bonebract is native to Africa, Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh to Nepal, W. Pakistan and some other parts of India.

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