Erlangea

Annual or perennial herbs. Stems striately ribbed. Leaves sessile, alternate, entire or serrate. Capitula homogamous and discoid, in lax corymbose cymes. Flowers purple to dark mauve. Achenes c. 4-ribbed, with glandular trichomes sunk in scattered pits between the ribs. Pappus 1-seriate, of caducous setae

Erlangea is a genus of African flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

Species Erlangea alternifolia (O.Hoffm.) S.Moore Erlangea angelinii (Fiori) Cufod. Erlangea angolensis (Hiern) S.Moore Erlangea calycina S.Moore Erlangea centaurioides (S.Moore) S.Moore Erlangea chevalieri O.Hoffm. & Muschl. Erlangea enigmatica C.Jeffrey Erlangea fruticosa C.D.Adams Erlangea linearifolia (O.Hoffm.) S.Moore Erlangea misera (Oliv. & Hiern) S.Moore Erlangea paleacea Chiov. Erlangea plumosa Sch.Bip. Erlangea remifolia Wild & G.V.Pope Erlangea richardsiae (Wech.) C.Jeffrey Erlangea schebellensis S.Moore Erlangea smithii S.Moore