Emiliella

S.Moore
Description: 
Annual herbs. Leaves alternate, simple, sessile to shortly petiolate, oblong-obovate to lanceolate, slightly serrate. Capitula discoid, small, solitary, with +/-8 florets, campanulate-cylindric. Involucre of 1 series of bracts, ecalyculate. Receptacle flat, naked. Florets all bisexual, tubular; corolla shorter than ovary, pink to violet. Style : branches truncate, penicillate at apex. Cypselas linear, ribbed, glabrous. Pappus a single linear to linear-ovate scale (reduced bristle?) or 0.
Distribution: 
Species 5, sthn trop. Afr., Angola and Zambia.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
ASTERACEAE

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