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Emilia

Emilia
Family: Asteraceae
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Theodore M. Barkley+ in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
Annuals (sometimes persisting, usually monocarpic) [perennials], mostly 20-100 cm (taprooted; often glaucous). Stems usually 1, erect or lax (branched throughout or distally). Leaves mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile (bases usually auriculate, clasping); blades pinnately nerved, mostly ovate to obovate or oblanceolate [lanceolate] (sometimes pinnately lobed, sometimes lyrate-pinnatifid), ultimate margins entire or toothed, faces usually glabrous, sometimes villous or ± arachnose. Heads discoid, in cymiform or corymbiform arrays. Calyculi 0. Involucres urceolate to campanulate or cylindric, mostly 2-8+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, usually 8 or 13 in 1-2 series, erect (reflexed in fruit), distinct (margins interlocking and coherent early), mostly linear to oblong, equal, margins scarious (glabrous or villous, apices usually green or slightly darkened, seldom blackish). Receptacles flat to convex, smooth or obscurely foveolate, epaleate. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 20-50[100+], all bisexual and fertile or inner functionally staminate; corollas usually pinkish, lavender, or purplish, rarely reddish [orange, white, yellow], tubes shorter than to equaling funnelform to cylindric throats, lobes 5, erect to spreading, lance-ovate; style branches stigmatic in 2 lines, apices truncate or truncate-penicillate (appendages essentially 0). Cypselae (stramineous to brown) fusiform-prismatic, 5-ribbed, glabrous but for stout, blunt hairs on ribs; pappi fragile, of 80-100+, white, barbellulate bristles. x = 5.

D. H. Nicolson (1980) pointed out that Emilia is taxonomically complicated with poorly defined, weedy species and an involved nomenclatural history. Emilia coccinea (Sims) G. Don is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental; it is not known to escape and persist in the flora. It keys here to E. fosbergii, from which it differs in having involucres 6-9 mm (lengths typically 1.5 times diameters). In cultivation, it has bright red to dark orange corollas. Nicolson provided drawings that illustrate the distinctions.

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Emilia abyssinica
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Emilia adamagibaensis
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Emilia arvensis
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Emilia aurita
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Emilia baberka
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Emilia baldwinii
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Emilia bampsiana
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Emilia basifolia
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Emilia baumii
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Emilia bellioides
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Emilia bianoensis
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Emilia blittersdorffii
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Emilia blittersdorfii
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Emilia brachycephala
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Emilia caespitosa
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Emilia cenioides
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Emilia charlesii
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Emilia chiovendeana
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Emilia citrina
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Emilia coccinea
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Emilia coloniaria
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Emilia corallina
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Emilia crispata
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Emilia cryptantha
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Emilia debilis
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Emilia decipiens
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Emilia discifolia
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Emilia djalonensis
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Emilia duvigneaudii
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Emilia emilioides
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Emilia fallax
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Emilia fosbergii
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Emilia fugax
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Emilia gossweileri
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Emilia guineensis
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Emilia helianthella
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Emilia herbacea
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Emilia hiernii
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Emilia hockii
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Emilia homblei
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Emilia integrifolia
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Emilia irregularibracteata
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Emilia javanica
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Emilia jeffreyana
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Emilia juncea
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Emilia kasaiensis
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Emilia kilwensis
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Emilia kivuensis
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Emilia lejolyana
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Emilia leptocephala
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