Macledium

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Macledium zeyheri, blomhoof, Krantzkloof NR, a.jpg

|image_caption = Macledium zeyheri

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|taxon = Macledium

|authority = Cass.

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|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text.

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{{Genus list

|Cryptostephane|Sch.Bip.

|Cullumiopsis|Drake

|Nitelium|Cass.

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Macledium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.{{cite journal |last=Ortiz |first=Santiago |title=Reinstatement of the Genus Macledium Cass. (Asteraceae, Mutisieae): Morphological and Phylogenetic Arguments |journal=Taxon |date=Aug 2001 |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=733–744 |jstor=1223704|doi=10.2307/1223704}} Both Macledium and Dicoma are distributed largely in tropical and southern Africa.{{cite web |last=Netnou |first=N.C. |title=A revision of the genera Dicoma Cass. and Macledium Cass. |url=https://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za/bitstream/10210/243/49/part3.pdf.txt |publisher=University of Johannesburg |year=2008 |accessdate=24 July 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130725143739/https://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za/bitstream/10210/243/49/part3.pdf.txt |archive-date=25 July 2013 |url-status=dead }} Macledium is distinguished from genus Dicoma by a large number of characters relating to morphology and anatomy of phyllaries, corolla, anthers, style, cypsela and testa.