9238.00 Cosmos Cav. - Cosmos

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite, pinnatisect or simple. Capitula terminal, solitary or arranged in few-headed terminal or axillary cymes. Phyllaries in 2 series; outer leafy, inner usually scarious. Receptacular scales present. Ray florets neuter; disk florets many. Rays (in ours) sulphur-yellow, orange, red, pink or white . Achenes fusiform, typically attenuate into a beak. Pappus of backwardly-barbed bristles (in ours).

Worldwide: c. 30 species from the Americas

Zimbabwe: 2 taxa.

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

Species	FZ divisions	Content
bipinnatus Cav.	W,C,E	Description, Image
sulphureus Cav.	N,C,E	Description, Image

Other sources of information about Cosmos:

Our websites:

Flora of Malawi: Cosmos
Flora of Zambia: Cosmos
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cosmos

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Cosmos
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cosmos
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Cosmos
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Cosmos
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Cosmos
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cosmos
JSTOR Plant Science: Cosmos
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cosmos
Plants of the World Online: Cosmos
Tropicos: Cosmos
Wikipedia: Cosmos