- Family: Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Aedesia O.Hoffm.
This genus is accepted, and is native to Africa..
[FTEA]
Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Habit
- Perennial herbs
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate, amplexicaul
- Capitulum
- Capitula terminal, sessile, large, homogamous, solitary or in few-headed inflorescences, surrounded and overtopped by upper leaves; receptacle epaleate; corolla with long tube and 5 lobes
- Fruits
- Achenes many-ribbed; pappus multiseriate, of barbellate, somewhat flattened bristles.
Native to:
Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Zaïre
Aedesia O.Hoffm. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. 1: 321 (1897)
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 24: 467 (1898).
- in E. & P. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 1: 321 (1897)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- K. Bremer, Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 216 (1994)
- C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 248 (1988)
- Mattf. In E.J. 59, Beibl. 133: 8–12 (1924)
- in E.J. 24: 467 (1898)
- in E. & P. Pf., Nachtr. 1: 321 (1897)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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