9406.000 Cineraria L.

Cron, G.V., Balkwill, K. & Knox, E.B. (2006) Two new species and a variety of Cineraria (Asteraceae) from tropical Africa Kew Bulletin 61 167 - 178

Cron, G.V., Balkwill, K. & Knox, E.B. (2006) A revision of the genus Cineraria (Asteraceae, Senecioneae) Kew Bulletin 61 449 - 535

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs or subshrubs. Stems and leaves often grey, covered with a cobwebby indumentum. Leaves palmately veined and auriculate. Involucre with a calyculus. Capitula heterogamous, radiate; ray and disk florets yellow. Achenes flattened, obovate with narrow wings or margins and with a substantial carpopodium. Pappus of white caducous setae.

Derivation of name: from "cinereus" meaning ash-coloured, referring to the greyish indumentum.

Worldwide: 35 species in tropical and S Africa, Madagascar and SW Arabia

No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species

Links to cultivated taxa    View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

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saxifraga DC.Image

Other sources of information about Cineraria:

Flora of Zimbabwe: native/naturalised Cineraria page
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Cineraria
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Cineraria
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Cineraria
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cineraria
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Cineraria

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, 2002-13

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: genus page: Cineraria.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1550, retrieved 21 May 2013

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