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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-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>[annuals, shrubs], [5–]10–35 cm (often cespitose, not prickly, sometimes with milky sap). <b>Stems</b> usually erect (often ± congested; rootstocks often woody). <b>Leaves</b> usually mostly basal, sometimes cauline as well; petiolate or sessile; blades linear to lanceolate, spatulate or oblanceolate, margins entire or pinnately lobed, abaxial faces white-woolly, adaxial usually glabrate or glabrous, sometimes arachnose. <b>Involucres</b> ± campanulate, turbinate, or cylindric, [5–]10–15+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 2–4 series, connate 1/2–3/4 their lengths, margins ± scarious, apices acute, abaxial faces glabrous [arachnose to tomentose]. <b>Receptacles</b> conic or convex, deeply alveolate (pits enclosing cypselae, their margins often ciliate). <b>Ray</b> florets neuter; 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. <b>Disc</b> florets bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow to orange. <b>Cypselae</b> obovoid, ribs 0, faces villous; pappi persistent, of 7–8[–12+], lanceolate to subulate-aristate scales in 2 series (± hidden by hairs on cypselae). <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=South Africa;Namibia;tropical East Africa;cultivated and/or introduced elsewhere.
|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 introduced 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
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