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Emilia limosa
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| Synonyms: |
Senecio limosus O. Hoffm. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual or short-lived perennial, up to 75 cm high; stems slender, weak, mostly erect, very sparsely branched, hairless. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate, narrowly elliptic to almost linear, 1.4-9 cm long almost hairless to sparsely shortly pubescent beneath; margin remotely and obscurely toothed. Capitula 1-4 in lax terminal heads; involucre cylindric, 5-7 mm long and 1.5-2 mm wide; bracts 8-9, green tinged purple and red-tipped, 4.5-6 mm long, hairless or sparsely hairy at the tips. Disc florets mauve or purple, 5.5-8 mm long, rays absent. Achenes 1.7-3 mm long, hairless; pappus 3.5-4 mm long. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | limosa: muddy, living on mud |
| Habitat: | In moist grassland, swampy areas and peat bogs. |
| Altitude range: | 990 - 2400 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DRC, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. |
| Malawi distribution: | ? |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Beentje, H.J. & Ghazanfar, S.A. (eds.) (2005). Compositae (Part 3) Flora of Tropical East Africa Page 593. Jeffrey, C. (1986). The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV Kew Bulletin 41(4) Page 917. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 25. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 30. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Emilia limosaAfrican Plant Database: Emilia limosa
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