Flora of Caprivi: Cultivated plants
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454.000 Ascolepis
Description of the genus
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves crowded at culm base, lamina often inrolled. Inflorescence a compact head of 1-flowered spikelets surrounded by an involucre of leaves. Each spikelet consists of a spikelet bract, a perianth scale (squamella), a rhachilla (in a few species) and a flower. The squamella is often conspicuous and petal-like and sometimes encloses the flower, the nutlet and squamella falling together. Stamens 1-3(-5). Ovary with 2-3 stigmas. Nutlet minutely papillose. Worldwide: c. 20 species, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa; 1 in Madagascar and S America and 2 extending to Indo-China Caprivi: 6 cultivated taxa. |
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| capensis (Kunth) Ridl. | Description, Image |
| hemisphaerica Peter ex Goetgh. | |
| pinguis C.B. Clarke | |
| protea Welw. var. bellidiflora (Welw.) Lye | Description, Image |
| protea Welw.[Agg] | |
| pusilla Ridl. | Description, Image |
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Flora of Mozambique: Ascolepis
Flora of Zambia: Ascolepis
Flora of Zimbabwe: Ascolepis
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): AscolepisBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Ascolepis
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Ascolepis
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Ascolepis
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Ascolepis
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Ascolepis
JSTOR Plant Science: Ascolepis
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Ascolepis
Plants of the World Online: Ascolepis
Tropicos: Ascolepis
Wikipedia: Ascolepis
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