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Genus:
Alepidea
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Order: Apiales > Family: Apiaceae
About 28
species, with 25 species occurring in southern Africa, although a few
extend as far north as Ethiopia.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants of
southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI),
Flora of Zimbabwe
and Flora of
Mozambique.
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Alepidea acutidens |
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Alepidea
amatymbica (Giant Alepidea, Large Tinsel Flowers)
Kalmoes, Slangwortel [Afrikaans]; lesoko [South Sotho]; inkatsankatsa
[Swazi]; iqwili [Xhosa]; ikhathazo [Swazi, Xhosa, Zulu]
See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by
Elsa Pooley p. 160. and
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Alepidea attenuata |
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Alepidea basinuda |
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Alepidea capensis |
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Alepidea cirsiifolia |
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Alepidea cordifolia |
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Alepidea delicatula |
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Alepidea duplidens |
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Alepidea galpinii |
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Alepidea insculpta |
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Alepidea longeciliata |
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Alepidea macowani |
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Alepidea multisecta |
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Alepidea
natalensis See
KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 160. |
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Alepidea peduncularis
See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Alepidea pilifera |
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Alepidea propinqua
Recorded from Mozambique. |
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Alepidea pusilla |
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Alepidea reticulata |
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Alepidea serrata |
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Alepidea stellata |
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Alepidea setifera
Kalmoes [Afrikaans] See
Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 288. |
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Alepidea thodei |
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Alepidea woodii |
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Publications
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Burtt, B.L. 1991. Umbelliferae of southern
Africa: an introduction and annotated checklist. Edinburgh Journal of
Botany 48: 133-282.
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de Castro, A. & van Wyk, B-E. 1994.
Diagnostic characters and geographical distribution of Alepidea species
used in traditional medicine. South African Journal of Botany 60:
345-350.
- Holzapfel, C.W., Van Wyk, B.-E., De Castro, A.,
Marais, W. & Herbst, M. 1995. A chemotaxonomic
survey of kaurene derivatives in the genus Alepidea
(Apiaceae). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 23:
799–803.
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Weimarck, H. 1949. A revision of the genus Alepidea.
Botaniska Notiser 1949: 217-268.
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