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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Arctotis
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 922. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 394. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=African-daisy
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Arctotideae;Arctotis
|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>[[Arctotis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek arktos, brown bear, and ous, otos, ear, perhaps alluding to shape of pappus scales
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 34, 48, 195
|treatment_page=page 198
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials [subshrubs], [5–]10–100 cm (hirsute to arachnose or woolly, sometimes glandular as well). <b>Stems</b> erect [decumbent]. <b>Leaves</b> basal and/or cauline; petiolate or sessile; blades mostly spatulate to oblanceolate, margins entire, sinuate-dentate, or pinnately lobed, abaxial faces tomentose to sparsely arachnose. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric to campanulate, 10–25 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–6+ series, distinct, outer linear to oblong, inner ovate to elliptic, margins ± scarious. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, alveolate (pit margins often ciliate), epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets pistillate, fertile (staminodes often present); corollas white, cream, yellow, orange, pink, purple, violet, or blue (sometimes dark abaxially), laminae 4-veined, 3-toothed. <b>Disc</b> florets usually bisexual and fertile, sometimes functionally staminate; corollas yellow or brown to violet or purple. <b>Cypselae</b> ovoid to obovoid, abaxial faces ± rounded, 3–5-ribbed or -winged (wings sometimes toothed and inflexed into 2 longitudinal grooves), adaxial faces flattened, apices sometimes forming callous borders, faces (smooth or transversely rugose) glabrous or pilose to sericeous; pappi usually present, persistent, usually of 5–8 ovate to oblong scales in 2 series, sometimes coroniform, sometimes none. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=s Africa;cultivated and/or introduced elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 60 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Cypselae ± ovoid, 1.3–1.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 0 or coroniform
|[[Arctotis fastuosa|Arctotis fastuosa]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Cypselae ± obovoid, 2–3 mm, sericeous (hairs from bases) and tomentulose (on faces); pappi of 5–8 hyaline scales 0.5–4 mm
|[[Arctotis stoechadifolia|Arctotis stoechadifolia]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Arctotis
|author=Alison McKenzie Mahoney
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=s Africa;cultivated and/or introduced elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_233.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Arctotideae
|genus=Arctotis
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