Amphoricarpos Vis.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 208

105. Amphoricarpos Vis. 1

Perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, entire, not spiny. Capitula solitary (rarely 2) on long peduncles. Involucral bracts in several

rows, herbaceous with scarious margin, entire, without appendages. Receptacle convex, with entire or lacerate scales. Outermost florets female, the remainder hermaphrodite. Corolla shortly 5-lobed. Anthers caudate. Achenes hairy to subglabrous, the outer compressed, the inner cylindrical; pappus of c. 10 linear scales.