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|accepted_name=Gazania
|accepted_authority=Gaertner
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fruct. Sem. Pl.
|place=2: 451, plate 173, fig. 2. 1791
|year=1791
}}
|common_names=Treasure-flower
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Arctotideae;Gazania
|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>[[Gazania]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek gaza, riches or royal treasure, alluding to splendor of flowers; or for Theodorus of Gaza (1398–1478), who translated the works of Theophrastus
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 48, 195
|treatment_page=page 196
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole-organism atypical some measurement;whole-organism some measurement;whole-organism duration"><b>Perennials </b>[annuals, shrubs], [5–] 10–35 cm (often cespitose, not prickly, sometimes with milky sap).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation"><b>Stems </b>usually erect (often ± congested; rootstocks often woody).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf position"><b>Leaves </b>usually mostly basal, sometimes cauline as well;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf position;leaf architecture;leaf architecture">petiolate or sessile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;margin shape;margin shape;abaxial face pubescence;adaxial face pubescence;adaxial face pubescence;adaxial face pubescence">blades linear to lanceolate, spatulate or oblanceolate, margins entire or pinnately lobed, abaxial faces white-woolly, adaxial usually glabrate or glabrous, sometimes arachnose.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="involucre shape;involucre shape;involucre shape;involucre shape;involucre shape;involucre diameter;involucre diameter"><b>Involucres </b>± campanulate, turbinate, or cylindric, [5–] 10–15+ mm diam.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="phyllary fusion;phyllary lengths;series quantity;margin texture;apex shape;abaxial face pubescence"><b>Phyllaries </b>in 2–4 series, connate 1/2–3/4 their lengths, margins ± scarious, apices acute, abaxial faces glabrous [arachnose to tomentose].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="receptacle shape;receptacle shape;receptacle relief"><b>Receptacles </b>conic or convex, deeply alveolate (pits enclosing cypselae, their margins often ciliate).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="ray-floret architecture"><b>Ray-</b>florets neuter;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;lamina architecture;lamina shape">corollas yellow, orange, or red to maroon (usually each with darker abaxial stripe and a darker adaxial spot or blotch near base), laminae 5-veined, 4-toothed.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="disc-floret reproduction;disc-floret reproduction"><b>Disc-</b>florets bisexual, fertile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="corolla coloration">corollas yellow to orange.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="cypsela shape;rib presence;face pubescence"><b>Cypselae </b>obovoid, ribs 0, faces villous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="scale atypical quantity;scale quantity;scale shape;series quantity">pappi persistent, of 7–8 [–12+], lanceolate to subulate-aristate scales in 2 series (± hidden by hairs on cypselae).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="pappus duration;x chromosome quantity">x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=South Africa;Namibia;tropical East Africa;cultivated and/or  elsewhere
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 20 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Gazania
|author=Alison McKenzie Mahoney
|authority=Gaertner
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=South Africa;Namibia;tropical East Africa;cultivated and/or  elsewhere
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fruct. Sem. Pl.
|publication year=1791
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Arctotideae
|genus=Gazania
|abaxial face pubescence=glabrous;white-woolly
|adaxial face pubescence=arachnose;glabrous;glabrate
|apex shape=acute
|blade shape=linear;lanceolate spatulate or oblanceolate
|corolla coloration=yellow;orange
|cypsela shape=obovoid
|disc-floret reproduction=fertile;bisexual
|face pubescence=villous
|involucre diameter=10mm;15mm
|involucre shape=cylindric;turbinate;cylindric;turbinate;campanulate
|lamina architecture=5-veined
|lamina shape=4-toothed
|leaf architecture=sessile;petiolate
|leaf position=cauline;basal
|margin shape=lobed;entire
|margin texture=scarious
|pappus duration=persistent
|phyllary fusion=connate
|phyllary lengths=1/2;3/4
|ray-floret architecture=neuter
|receptacle relief=alveolate
|receptacle shape=convex;conic
|rib presence=absent
|scale atypical quantity=8;12
|scale quantity=7;8
|scale shape=lanceolate;subulate-aristate
|series quantity=2;2;4
|stem orientation=erect
|whole-organism atypical some measurement=5cm;10cm
|whole-organism duration=perennial
|whole-organism some measurement=10cm;35cm
|x chromosome quantity=9
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