Callilepis DC.

Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (2000) Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera Strelitzia 10

Description of the genus

Small shrubs or perennial herbs with tuberous or sub-woody rootstocks, producing annual stems. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, to elliptic, glabrous or with glandular hairs, margins flat, usually entire. Capitula radiate, many-flowered, solitary at the end of long peduncles. Involucre campanulate; phyllaries in 3 rows, narrowly lanceolate. Receptacle flat. Ray florets in one row, corolla white. Disc florets corolla purplish tube. Pappus of scale-like awns.

Worldwide: Five species endemic to southern Africa.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

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Other sources of information about Callilepis:

External websites:

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

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Callilepis.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2231, retrieved 28 March 2024

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