Asteraceae
Emilia

Emilia limosa (O.Hoffm.) C.Jeffrey

First published in Kew Bull. 41: 917 (1986)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is DR Congo to S. Africa.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005

Morphology General Habit
Annual or short-lived perennial herb 15–75 cm tall; stems slender, weak, usually erect, hardly branched, glabrous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves sessile, oblanceolate, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate or almost linear, 1.4–9 cm long, 0.1–1.9 cm wide, remotely obscurely denticulate, sparsely shortly pubescent at least beneath, often glabrescent, sometimes almost glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
Capitula 1–4 in lax terminal corymbs, discoid; stalks of the individual capitula glabrous or sparsely pubescent; involucre cylindrical, 5–7 mm long, 1.5–2 mm in diameter; phyllaries 8(–9), green tinged purple, tipped reddish, 4.5–6 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent at least near apex.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
Disc florets purple or mauve, corolla 5.5–8 mm long, lobes 1.5–2.7 mm long, those of the outer florets the larger.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Achenes 1.7–3 mm long, glabrous; pappus 3.5–4 mm long.
Habitat
Moist grassland, swamp grassland, peat bog; (990–)1650–2800 m
Distribution
T7 T8
[FTEA]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0