Macledium

Macledium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Both Macledium and Dicoma are distributed largely in tropical and southern Africa. 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.

Species
, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:
 * Macledium anmadochrissum (Lawalrée) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium auriculatum (Hutch. & B.L.Burtt) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium canum (Balf.f.) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium ellipticum (G.V.Pope) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium gossweileri (S.Moore) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium grandidieri (Drake) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium humile (Lawalrée) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium kirkii (Harv.) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium nanum (Welw. ex Hiern) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium oblongum (Lawalrée & Mvukiy.) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium plantaginifolium (O.Hoffm.) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium poggei (O.Hoffm.) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium pretoriense (C.A.Sm.) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium relhanioides (Less.) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium sessiliflorum (Harv.) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium speciosum (DC.) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium spinosum (L.) S.Ortiz
 * Macledium zeyheri (Sond.) S.Ortiz

In southern Africa it is informally divided into the Cape and grassland groups:
 * Cape species:
 * M. latifolium
 * M. relhanioides
 * M. spinosum
 * Grassland species:
 * M. pretoriense
 * M. sessiliflorum subsp. sessiliflorum var. membranaceum
 * M. speciosum
 * M. zeyheri