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|accepted_name=Delairea
|accepted_authority=Lemaire
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.
|place=3, 1: 379. 1844
|year=1844
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Delairea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Delairea]]</div></div>
|etymology=For “Dom. Delaire,” who sent a specimen to Lemaire from a garden in the Orléans district of France
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 542
|treatment_page=page 608
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> to 600+ cm (perennating bases unknown; herbage glabrous). <b>Stems</b> usually 1, scrambling and twining (branched). <b>Leaves</b> cauline; alternate; petiolate; blades palmately nerved, polygonal to ± orbiculate (bases often cordate), margins dentate, faces glabrous. <b>Heads</b> discoid, in corymbiform arrays (terminal or from axils of distal leaves). <b>Calyculi</b> of 1–4(–5) bractlets. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric to weakly turbinate, 2–4 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, (7–)8+ in 1–2 series, erect, distinct (margins interlocking), lance-linear, ± equal, margins scarious (apices green or yellowish green). <b>Receptacles</b> convex, ± foveolate (socket margins often membranous), epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets 8–25, bisexual, fertile; corollas pale yellow, tubes shorter than campanulate to funnelform throats, lobes 5, recurved, lance-deltate to lanceolate; style branches stigmatic in 2 lines, apices ± truncate (appendages essentially 0). <b>Cypselae</b> ± prismatic, 5-angled, glabrous; pappi readily falling or fragile, of 40–60(–100+), white, barbellulate bristles. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=South Africa;introduced;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
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name=Delairea
|author=Theodore M. Barkley†
|authority=Lemaire
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=South Africa;introduced;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.
|publication year=1844
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Delairea
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