Emilia (plant)

Emilia is a genus of herbaceous plants in the family sunflower family, known as tasselflower or pualele.[2][3][4]

tasselflower
pualele
Emilia fosbergii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Tribe:
Senecioneae
Genus:
Emilia

Cass.
Synonyms[1]
  • Pithosillum Cass.
  • Senecio sect. Emilioidei Muschl.
  • Xyridopsis Welw. ex B.Nord.
  • Pseudactis S.Moore
  • Senecio subg. Emilia (Cass.) O.Hoffm.

The members of the genus are distributed mainly in the tropics and sub-tropics of Africa and Asia. Some species have also been placed in the genus Cacalia.[4][5]

Species[1]
  • Emilia abyssinica
  • Emilia adamagibaensis
  • Emilia adscendens
  • Emilia alstonii
  • Emilia ambifaria
  • Emilia arvensis
  • Emilia aurita
  • Emilia baberka
  • Emilia baldwinii
  • Emilia bampsiana
  • Emilia basifolia
  • Emilia bathiei
  • Emilia baumii
  • Emilia bellioides
  • Emilia bianoensis
  • Emilia brachycephala
  • Emilia caespitosa
  • Emilia capillaris
  • Emilia cenioides
  • Emilia chiovendeana
  • Emilia citrina
  • Emilia coccinea
  • Emilia coloniaria
  • Emilia crepidioides
  • Emilia crispata
  • Emilia cryptantha
  • Emilia debilis
  • Emilia decaryi
  • Emilia decipiens
  • Emilia discifolia
  • Emilia djalonensis
  • Emilia duvigneaudii
  • Emilia emilioides
  • Emilia exserta
  • Emilia fallax
  • Emilia flaccida
  • Emilia fosbergii
  • Emilia fugax
  • Emilia gaudichaudii
  • Emilia gossweileri
  • Emilia graminea
  • Emilia guineensis
  • Emilia hantamensis
  • Emilia helianthella
  • Emilia herbacea
  • Emilia hiernii
  • Emilia hockii
  • Emilia homblei
  • Emilia humifusa
  • Emilia infralignosa
  • Emilia integrifolia
  • Emilia irregularibracteata
  • Emilia jeffreyana
  • Emilia juncea
  • Emilia kasaiensis
  • Emilia khaopawtaensis
  • Emilia kilwensis
  • Emilia kivuensis
  • Emilia lejolyana
  • Emilia leptocephala
  • Emilia leucantha
  • Emilia libeniana
  • Emilia limosa
  • Emilia lisowskiana
  • Emilia longifolia
  • Emilia longipes
  • Emilia longiramea
  • Emilia lopollensis
  • Emilia lubumbashiensis
  • Emilia lyrata
  • Emilia malaisseana
  • Emilia marlothiana
  • Emilia mbagoi
  • Emilia micrura
  • Emilia moutsamboteana
  • Emilia myriocephala
  • Emilia negellensis
  • Emilia pammicrocephala
  • Emilia parnassiifolia
  • Emilia perrieri
  • Emilia petitiana
  • Emilia pinnatifida
  • Emilia praetermissa
  • Emilia prenanthoidea
  • Emilia protracta
  • Emilia pseudactis
  • Emilia pumila
  • Emilia ramulosa
  • Emilia rehmanniana
  • Emilia rigida
  • Emilia robynsiana
  • Emilia scabra
  • Emilia schmitzii
  • Emilia serpentina
  • Emilia serpentinus
  • Emilia serrata
  • Emilia shabensis
  • Emilia simulans
  • Emilia somalensis
  • Emilia sonchifolia
  • Emilia speeseae
  • Emilia subscaposa
  • Emilia tenellula
  • Emilia tenera
  • Emilia tenuipes
  • Emilia tenuis
  • Emilia tessmannii
  • Emilia transvaalensis
  • Emilia tricholepis
  • Emilia ukambensis
  • Emilia ukingensis
  • Emilia vanmeelii
  • Emilia violacea
  • Emilia zairensis
  • Emilia zeylanica

References
  1. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1817. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1817: 68 in French
  3. Tropicos, Emilia Cass.
  4. "Emilia". Flora of North America. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
  5. "Emilia Cass". PLANTS. United States Department of Agriculture (National Plant Data Center).

Media related to Emilia at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Emilia at Wikispecies

Further reading
  • Everitt, J.H.; Lonard, R.L.; Little, C.R. (2007). Weeds in South Texas and Northern Mexico. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 0-89672-614-2


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