M. Thulin (2005) Cineraria. Flora of Somalia 3: 529
Plants annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves entire to pinnatified, palmately veined. Inflorescences more or or open corymbs of capitula. Capitula usually radiate, rarely discoid; phyllaries in 1-series but with an outer series of bracts forming a calyculus; receptacles without bracts. Flowers yellow; ray flowers female; disk flowers bisexual, tubular campanulate, 5-lobed; style branches truncate to obtuse. Achenes obovate, flattened, with thickened or sometimes winged margines; pappuses of many slender, barbellate bristles.
Cineraria includes about 30 species which are native in tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula.
One species is known from Somaliland, Cineraria abyssinica. None were known from Somalia when the Flora of Somalia was prepared.