Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Asteraceae
Asteraceae
Description:
Description - Herbs, with alternate and basal, often clasping leaves, and long-peduncled, solitary or loosely corymbose heads of pink, purple or orange, tubular, perfect and fertile flowers. Involucre nearly cylindric, its bracts in a single equal series. Receptacle flat, naked. Corolla-limb cylindric. Achenes nearly terete or 5-angled. Pappus of numerous soft white capillary bristles. [Name unexplained.] About 5 species, natives of the Old World tropics. Type species: Emilia flammea Cass.
Description - Herbs, with alternate and basal, often clasping leaves, and long-peduncled, solitary or loosely corymbose heads of pink, purple or orange, tubular, perfect and fertile flowers. Involucre nearly cylindric, its bracts in a single equal series. Receptacle flat, naked. Corolla-limb cylindric. Achenes nearly terete or 5-angled. Pappus of numerous soft white capillary bristles. [Name unexplained.] About 5 species, natives of the Old World tropics. Type species: Emilia flammea Cass.