| Corymbium | |
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| Corymbium villosum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Corymbioideae Panero & V.A.Funk |
| Tribe: | Corymbieae Panero & V.A.Funk |
| Genus: | Corymbium L. |
| Type species | |
| Corymbium africanum | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Contarena Adans. | |
Corymbium is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family comprising nine species. It is the only genus in the subfamily Corymbioideae and the tribe Corymbieae.[2][3] The species have leaves with parallel veins, strongly reminiscent of monocots, in a rosette and compounded inflorescences may be compact or loosely composed racemes, panicles or corymbs. Remarkable for species in the daisy family, each flower head contains just one, bisexual, mauve, pink or white disc floret within a sheath consisting of just two large involucral bracts.[4][5] The species are all endemic to the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, where they are known as plampers.[3]
- ^ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2014-11-15 at archive.today
- ^ Panero, J.L.; Funk, V.A. (2009). "New tribes in Asteraceae" (PDF). Phytologia. 91 (3): 568–70. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2013-09-08.
- ^ a b Nordenstam, B.; Funk, V.A. (2009). "Corymbieae". In Funk, V.A.; et al. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae (PDF). Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT). pp. 487–91. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-04. Retrieved 2013-09-08.
- ^ Weitz, F.M. (1989). "A revision of the genus Corymbium (Asteraceae)" (PDF). South African Journal of Botany. 55 (6): 598–629. doi:10.1016/S0254-6299(16)31133-4.
- ^ Manning, John; Goldblatt, Peter (2012). "Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: the Core Cape flora" (PDF). Strelitzia. 29. Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute: 393.