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|accepted_name=Osteospermum
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 923. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 395. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Calenduleae;Osteospermum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Calenduleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Osteospermum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek osteon, bone, and sperma, seed, alluding to hard fruits of original species
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 30, 379
|treatment_page=page 382
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> subshrubs, or shrubs [annuals], 5–150+ cm. <b>Stems</b> procumbent to erect [prostrate], glabrous or arachnose to piloso-hirtellous and/or stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b> sessile or petiolate; blades orbiculate, elliptic, or oblong to oblanceolate, lanceolate, or linear, margins entire or denticulate [pinnately lobed], faces glabrous or sparsely arachnose and/or stipitate-glandular, often glabrate. <b>Heads</b> borne singly [in corymbiform to umbelliform arrays]. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to hemispheric or broader, 5–20+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 5–21+ in 1–2(–3+) series, lanceolate to lance-linear (apices ± attenuate). <b>Receptacles</b> flat to conic. <b>Ray</b> florets 10–21+ in ± 1 series; corollas whitish to purplish or yellow to orange, laminae ± oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate. <b>Disc</b> florets 12–50+, functionally staminate; corollas yellow or purplish, tubes shorter than the ± campanulate throats. <b>Cypselae</b> triquetrous-prismatic to clavate, often ± tuberculate or ridged and/or winged. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Africa;widely cultivated;sometimes escaping and/or persisting.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 75 (2 in the flora).</p>
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|references=
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades obovate or oblong to oblanceolate, 30–50(–100+) × 0–20(–40+) mm; ray corollas purplish to whitish
|[[Osteospermum ecklonis|Osteospermum ecklonis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades cuneate to clavate, 3–12(–20+) × 1–4+ mm; ray corollas yellow to orange.
|[[Osteospermum spinescens|Osteospermum spinescens]]
|}
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name=Osteospermum
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Africa;widely cultivated;sometimes escaping and/or persisting.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Calenduleae
|genus=Osteospermum
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