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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Crassocephalum

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid II > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Senecioneae

The 24 species are found in Africa, Madagascar, Mascarene Islands and Yemen. There are six species native to southern Africa, occurring in summer rainfall regions.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI) and Flora of Zimbabwe.

Crassocephalum coeruleum

 

Crassocephalum crepidioides

See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 82. and Flora of Zimbabwe.

Crassocephalum montuosum

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Crassocephalum rubens

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Crassocephalum uvens

Recorded from Zimbabwe. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Crassocephalum x picridifolium