H. Beentje (2006) Gerbera. Flora of Somalia 3: 474
Plants scapose herbs with perennial rootstocks. Leaves all in basal rosettes. Scapes 1-several per rosette, sometimes precocious, simple, with 1 capitulum each. Capitulla solitary, terminal, heterogamous, seeming to have distinct ray and disc flowers but all flowers 2-lipped. Outer flowers female; corollas 2-lipped, with narrow tubes, both lips with 2 narrow, short lobes. Inner florets bisexual; corollas with broader tibes than in outer flower and short, browd lower lips; anthers sagittate or taile; style branches short, oblong, obtuse. Achenes all alike, more or less fusiform, narrowed distally or distinctly beaked, somewhat flattened; pappuses of numerous barbellate bristles, whitish, tawny, or purplish.
Gerbera is a genus of about 24 species. It is native to African montane regions and southeastern Asia. One species, Gerbera piloselloides, grows in Somaliand. There are none known from Somalia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.