Blepharispermum

Blepharispermum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Heliantheae
Genus: Blepharispermum
Wight ex DC.

Blepharispermum is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae.[1][2] They are distributed in Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and Sri Lanka.[3]

These are shrubs and small trees. The leaf blades are sometimes borne on petioles, which may have spines. The flower head contains 2 female disc florets and 2 to 4 male disc florets. The latter are whitish, greenish, or yellowish. The fruit is a rough-edged cypsela with a pappus.[3]

Species[4][5]
  1. Blepharispermum arcuatum - Tanzania, Madagascar
  2. Blepharispermum brachycarphum - Tanzania, Mozambique
  3. Blepharispermum canescens - Tanzania
  4. Blepharispermum ellenbeckii - Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya
  5. Blepharispermum fruticosum - Ethiopia, Somalia
  6. Blepharispermum hirtum - Yemen, Oman
  7. Blepharispermum minus - Kenya
  8. Blepharispermum obovatum - Ethiopia
  9. Blepharispermum petiolare - Sri Lanka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu
  10. Blepharispermum pubescens - Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zaire
  11. Blepharispermum spinulosum - Ivory Coast, Zaire
  12. Blepharispermum subsessile - Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
  13. Blepharispermum villosum - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya
  14. Blepharispermum xerothamnum - Tanzania
  15. Blepharispermum yemense - Yemen
  16. Blepharispermum zanguebaricum - Kenya

References

  1. ↑ Wight, Robert. 1834. Contributions to the Botany of India 11
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Blepharispermum Wight ex DC.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anderberg, A. A. et al. (2007). "Blepharispermum Wight ex DC.". In Kadereit, J. W. & C. Jeffrey. Flowering Plants: Eudicots; Asterales. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 8. Springer. p. 398. ISBN 978-3-540-31050-1.
  4. ↑ Blepharispermum. The Plant List.
  5. ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist