9195.000 Aspilia Thouars

Wild, H. (1967) The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 1. Heliantheae. Kirkia 6(1) 1-62

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, very rough to the touch (in ours). Capitula terminal, solitary or in lax racemes, sometimes axillary, radiate, yellow, white, lilac or purple. Phyllaries 2-3-seriate. Receptacular scales clasping the florets, narrowly oblong to obovate. Achenes obovoid, bilaterally flattened, pubescent. Pappus a laciniate cupule, often with 2 barbellate setae in addition.

Derivation of name: from Greek: a meaning without, spilos, a spot or blemish, hence spotless.

Zimbabwe: 5 taxa.

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

Species	FZ divisions	Content
kotschyi (Sch. Bip.ex Hochst.) Oliv. var. kotschyi	N,W	Description, Image
kotschyi (Sch. Bip.ex Hochst.) Oliv. var. alba Berhaut	N,W	Description, Image
mossambicensis (Oliv.) Wild	N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
natalensis (Sond.) Wild	N,E	Image
pluriseta Schweinf. subsp. pluriseta	N,C,E	Description, Image

Other sources of information about Aspilia:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Aspilia
Flora of Caprivi: Aspilia
Flora of Malawi: Aspilia
Flora of Mozambique: Aspilia
Flora of Zambia: Aspilia

External websites:

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Aspilia
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Aspilia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Aspilia
Wikipedia: Aspilia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Aspilia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Aspilia