Stephanocoma
(from stephanos, a crown, and kome, hair; referring to the crown-like pappus). ORD. Compositae. A monotypic genus. The species is a greenhouse, Thistle-like herb, requiring culture similar to Berkheya (which see).
S. carduoides (Thistle-like). fl.-heads yellow, discoid, small, at the tips of the branches, corymbose; involucral scales shorter than the disk, in many rows, subulate, margined with solitary, slender spines. Autumn. l. sparsely setulose, or glabrous on both sides, spiny-toothed or lobed, long-decurrent. Stem erect, striate, sub-glabrous. h. 2 1/2ft. South Africa, 1864. (B. M. 5715, under name of Stobaea sphaerocephala.)