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Calotesta
Sign in to saveCalotesta is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, containing the single species Calotesta alba. It is endemic to the Western Cape of South Africa, where it is limited to the Klein Swartberge Mountains.
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- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderAsterales
- FamilyAsteraceae
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Calotesta is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, containing the single species Calotesta alba. It is endemic to the Western Cape of South Africa, where it is limited to the Klein Swartberge Mountains.
This plant is characterized by the thick, cutinized coating on its seeds. When the species was described in 1990, it fit into no existing genera, so the new genus Calotesta was erected to house it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calotesta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.