H. Beentje (2005) Erlangea. Flora of Somalia 3:488
Plants annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, sessile, with milticellular hairs having a traight, elongated terminal cell. Inflorescences terminal, solitary capitula or of several capital in open, corymbiform cymes. Capitula homogamous, discoid; phyllaries in 2-5 series, imbricate, subequal or the inner progressively longer, the outer sometimes leaflike. Flowers many, purplish, exserted, tubes cylindric proximally, funnel-shaped distally; lobes 5, usually hairy. Achens oblong-obovoid, prismatic and 3-6-angled or -ribbed, pitted and glandular between the ribs; pappuses of a few caducous, barbellate bristles.
Erlangea is an African genus of six species. One, Erlangea centauroides, is present in both Somaliland and Somalia amd elsewhere. Another, Erlangea smithii is present in Somalia and other countries but not Somaliland.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.