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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Callilepis

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid II > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Gnaphalieae

The four species are endemic to southern Africa.  

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI).

Callilepis lancifolia

 

Callilepis laureola (Ox-eye Daisy)

Wildemagriet [Afrikaans]; mila [Swazi]; amafuthomhlaba, ihlamvu, impila [Zulu]

See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 216; Transvaal Lowveld and escarpment wild flowers by Jo Onderstall p. 198.

Callilepis leptophylla

Bergbitterbossie [Afrikaans]

See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 216; Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 40.

Callilepis salicifolia