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Asteraceae - Senecioneae - Emilia Cass.

Description:

  • Annual or perennial, mostly glabrous herbs
  • Leaves alternate, radical or cauline, entire to variously lobed, sometimes petiolate, sometimes amplexicaul or basally auriculate
  • Capitula discoid, usually corymbose, pedunculate
  • Involucre ecalyculate, cylindric or campanulate; bracts in 1 row
  • Receptacle epaleate
  • Disc florets bisexual; corolla tubular, orange, red, pink, purple, violet or white
  • Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate; endothecial tissue radial
  • Style branches truncate to obtuse, sometimes with appendages of fused papillae
  • Cypselas oblong, mostly ribbed, glabrous or pubescent
  • Pappus of many fine bristles
  • x = 5 (6, 8 - 1 report each) (polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Emilia Cass.
    • Cassini: 68 (1817)
    • Oliver & Hiern: 405 (1877)
    • Merxmüller: 55 (1967)
    • Jeffrey: 908 (1986)
    • Bremer: 501 (1994)
  • Pseudactis S.Moore
    • Moore: 118 (1919)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 90, tropical Africa and Asia
  • Southern Africa: Species 6, Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, North-West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • BREMER, K. 1994. Asteraceae, cladistics & classification. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • CASSINI, A.H.G. DE. 1817. Aperçu des genres ou sous-genres nouveaux formés par M. Henri Cassini dans la famille des Synanthérées. Bulletin des sciences de la Société Philomatique de Paris 4,1
  • JEFFREY, C. 1986. The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa. Kew Bulletin 41
  • MERXMÜLLER, H. 1967. Asteraceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 139
  • MOORE, S. LE M. 1919. Alabastra diversa - Part 30. Journal of Botany 57
  • OLIVER, D & HIERN, W.P. 1877. Compositae. Flora of tropical Africa 3