Othonna coronopifolia, L.

Magoswana, S. L., Boatwright, J. S., Magee, A. R. & Manning, J. C., 2022, A taxonomic revision of the Othonna coronopifolia L. group (Asteraceae: Senecioneae: Othonninae), South African Journal of Botany 149, pp. 604-616 : 605

3.2. Key to the species of the O. coronopifolia group

1a. Involucral bracts 5; leaves mostly pinnatisect to bipinnatisect... 1 O. pavonia

1b. Involucral bracts 7 or 8; leaves entire to 2- or 3-lobed:

2a. Plants spinescent; leaves often small, <40 mm long

3a. Branches erect to flfl; leaves narrowly oblanceolate, subterete in section, 10 - 40 mm long; capitula either terminal on stems and then a divaricately branched corymb or solitary on short-shoots... 2. O. spinescens

3b. Branches divaricate; leaves oblanceolate to elliptic, elliptic in section, 3 - 10 mm long; capitula mostly solitary and either terminal on stems or on short-shoots... 3. O. pteronioides

2b. Plants unarmed; leaves ± 40 mm long:

4a. Capitula terminal on short-shoots along stem; peduncles mostly <50 mm long; distributed in the drier interior southwestern parts of Western Cape... 4. O. ramulosa

4b. Capitula mostly terminal on branches, often in loose corymbs, rarely on short-shoots; peduncles usually> 50 mm long; distributed largely along the coast and near inland parts of the Western Cape:

5a. Leaf blades obovate to oblanceolate, often irregularly toothed or sometimes 3-pinnatifid with lanceolate to cordate lobes 3 - 10 £ 1 - 2 mm; cypselae myxogenic... 6. O. coronopifolia

5b. Leaf blades linear or narrowly lanceolate with linear lobes 5 - 15 £ 2 - 5 mm; cypselae non-myxogenic... 5. O. leptodactyla