Sect. Nephrotheca is a section within the genus ''Osteospermum'', belonging to the Calendula tribe in the

Daisy family The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

. The only known species is ''Osteospermum ilicifolium'' (previously known as ''Nephrotheca ilicifolia''), native to the

Cape Province The Province of the Cape of Good Hope ( af, Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop), commonly referred to as the Cape Province ( af, Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as The Cape ( af, Die Kaap), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequen ...

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

.Fernkloof Nature Reserve, ''Osteospermum ilicifolium''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q6040966 Endemic flora of South Africa Calenduleae Monotypic Asteraceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus