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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Emilia

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: Senecioneae

There are about 90 species, native to Africa and Asia, with 11 of them native to southern Africa and two species cultivated in the region.  

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Emilia abyssinica

Recorded from Zimbabwe. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Emilia ambifaria

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Emilia brachycephala

Recorded from Zimbabwe. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Emilia coccinea

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Emilia discifolia

Recorded from Zimbabwe. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Emilia hantamensis

 

Emilia limosa

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Emilia marlothiana

 

Emilia protracta

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Emilia tenellula

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Emilia transvaalensis

See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 444. and Flora of Zimbabwe.

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Emilia flammea

Native to the Philippines.

 

Emilia javanica

Native to Indonesia.