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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Arctotheca
|accepted_authority=J. C. Wendland
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Beob.,
|place=41. 1798
|year=1798
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hort. Herrenhus.
|place=1: 8, plate 6. 1798
|year=1798
}}
|common_names=Capeweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Arctotideae;Arctotheca
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Arctotideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Arctotheca]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek arktos, brown bear, and theke, case, capsule, container, alluding to dense, woolly tomentum of cypselae of some species
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 48, 195
|treatment_page=page 197
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>(sometimes flowering first year), (4–)8–20(–30+) cm (usually stoloniferous and/or rhizomatous). <b>Stems</b> decumbent or creeping to ± erect. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate; blades mostly obovate, margins usually pinnatifid to pinnatisect (often lyrate to runcinate) [entire], abaxial faces ± white-woolly, adaxial sparsely puberulent to arachnose (glabrate). <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric to campanulate, 10–15[–20+] mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–6+ series, distinct, ovate or oblong to linear, unequal, margins ± scarious, apices ± acute to acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous or arachnose. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, alveolate or smooth, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets neuter (staminodes sometimes present); corollas adaxially yellow (sometimes drying bluish) or ± bluish, laminae 4-veined, 3-toothed. <b>Disc</b> florets bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow or purplish to brownish. <b>Cypselae</b> ± obovoid or ± prismatic (4-angled), ribs 3–5, faces usually villous or woolly [glabrate]; pappi usually present, persistent, of 7–9+ scales (borne within callous borders crowning cypselae) [sometimes none]. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=South Africa;Mozambique.
|discussion=<p>Species 4 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Arctotheca
|author=Alison McKenzie Mahoney
|authority=J. C. Wendland
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=South Africa;Mozambique.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Beob.,;Hort. Herrenhus.
|publication year=1798;1798
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_231.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Arctotideae
|genus=Arctotheca
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