Blepharispermum
Blepharispermum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Tribe: | Heliantheae |
Genus: | Blepharispermum Wight ex DC. |
Blepharispermum is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae.[1][2] They are distributed in Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and Sri Lanka.[3]
These are shrubs and small trees. The leaf blades are sometimes borne on petioles, which may have spines. The flower head contains 2 female disc florets and 2 to 4 male disc florets. The latter are whitish, greenish, or yellowish. The fruit is a rough-edged cypsela with a pappus.[3]
- Blepharispermum arcuatum - Tanzania, Madagascar
- Blepharispermum brachycarphum - Tanzania, Mozambique
- Blepharispermum canescens - Tanzania
- Blepharispermum ellenbeckii - Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya
- Blepharispermum fruticosum - Ethiopia, Somalia
- Blepharispermum hirtum - Yemen, Oman
- Blepharispermum minus - Kenya
- Blepharispermum obovatum - Ethiopia
- Blepharispermum petiolare - Sri Lanka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu
- Blepharispermum pubescens - Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zaire
- Blepharispermum spinulosum - Ivory Coast, Zaire
- Blepharispermum subsessile - Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
- Blepharispermum villosum - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya
- Blepharispermum xerothamnum - Tanzania
- Blepharispermum yemense - Yemen
- Blepharispermum zanguebaricum - Kenya
References
- ↑ Wight, Robert. 1834. Contributions to the Botany of India 11
- ↑ Tropicos, Blepharispermum Wight ex DC.
- 1 2 Anderberg, A. A.; et al. (2007). "Blepharispermum Wight ex DC.". In Kadereit, J. W. & C. Jeffrey. Flowering Plants: Eudicots; Asterales. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. 8. Springer. p. 398. ISBN 978-3-540-31050-1.
- ↑ Blepharispermum. The Plant List.
- ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
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