Calotis
Belongs within: Astereae.
Calotis is a genus of composite-flowered herbs endemic to Australia (Black & Robertson 1965).
Characters (from Black & Robertson 1965): Herbs with alternate leaves; fruiting heads usually globular and burr-like. Involucre mostly hemispherical, the bracts in about two rows nearly equal, with scarious margins; receptacle flat or convex, naked; ray-flowers ligulate, female, mostly in one row; disk-flowers tubular, bisexual but usually barren; anthers obtuse at base; style-branches linear in ray-flowers, lanceolate and coarsely papillate in disk-flowers, stigmatic lines only present in fertile florets; achenes compressed, narrowed towards base, sometimes winged; pappus of short awns or bristles, barbellate with reflexed or spreading hairs (barbules), and accompanied sometimes by narrow or broad scales.
<==Calotis
|--C. ancyrocarpa BR65
|--C. breviradiata [=C. multicaulis var. breviradiata] BR65
|--C. breviseta LK14
|--C. cuneifolia BR65
|--C. cymbacantha BR65
|--C. erinacea [incl. C. erinacea var. biaristata] BR65
|--C. hispidula BR65
|--C. inermis M99
|--C. kempei BR65
|--C. lappulacea BR65
|--C. latiuscula BR65
|--C. multicaulis (Turczaninow) Druce 1917 (see below for synonymy) BR65
|--C. porphyroglossa BR65
|--C. scabiosifolia BR65
`--C. scapigera BR65
Calotis multicaulis (Turczaninow) Druce 1917 [=Goniopogon multicaule Turczaninow 1851; incl. C. plumulifera von Mueller 1859] BR65
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[BR65] Black, J. M., & E. L. Robertson. 1965. Flora of South Australia. Part IV. Oleaceae–Compositae. W. L. Hawes, Government Printer: Adelaide.
[LK14] Lyons, M. N., G. J. Keighery, L. A. Gibson & T. Handasyde. 2014. Flora and vegetation communities of selected islands off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 81: 205–244.
[M99] Matthews, M. 1999. Heliothine Moths of Australia: A guide to bollworms and related noctuid groups. CSIRO Publishing.