9406.000 Cineraria L.

Cron, G.V., Balkwill, K. & Knox, E.B. (2006) A revision of the genus Cineraria (Asteraceae, Senecioneae) Kew Bulletin 61 449 - 535

Cron, G.V., Balkwill, K. & Knox, E.B. (2006) Two new species and a variety of Cineraria (Asteraceae) from tropical Africa Kew Bulletin 61 167 - 178

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs or subshrubs. Stems and leaves often grey, covered with a cobwebby indumentum. Leaves palmately veined and auriculate. Involucre with a calyculus. Capitula heterogamous, radiate; ray and disk florets yellow. Achenes flattened, obovate with narrow wings or margins and with a substantial carpopodium. Pappus of white caducous setae.

Derivation of name: from "cinereus" meaning ash-coloured, referring to the greyish indumentum.

Worldwide: 35 species in tropical and South Africa, Madagascar and SW Arabia

Zimbabwe: 4 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
deltoidea Sond.	E	Description, Image
mazoensis S. Moore var. mazoensis	N,C,E	Description, Image
mazoensis S. Moore var. graniticola Cron[End][DD]	W,E,S	Description, Image
pulchra Cron[NrEnd][LR-lc]	E	Description, Image

Other sources of information about Cineraria:

Our websites:

Flora of Malawi: Cineraria
Flora of Mozambique: Cineraria
Flora of Zambia: Cineraria
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cineraria

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Cineraria
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cineraria
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Cineraria
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Cineraria
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Cineraria
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cineraria
JSTOR Plant Science: Cineraria
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cineraria
Plants of the World Online: Cineraria
Tropicos: Cineraria
Wikipedia: Cineraria