Macledium
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Macledium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[2] Both Macledium and Dicoma are distributed largely in tropical and southern Africa.[3] Macledium is distinguished from genus Dicoma by a large number of characters relating to morphology and anatomy of phyllaries, corolla, anthers, style, cypsela and testa.[2]
Species
As of April 2023[update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[1]
- Macledium anmadochrissum (Lawalrée) S.Ortiz
- Macledium auriculatum (Hutch. & B.L.Burtt) S.Ortiz
- Macledium canum (Balf.f.) S.Ortiz
- Macledium ellipticum (G.V.Pope) S.Ortiz
- Macledium gossweileri (S.Moore) S.Ortiz
- Macledium grandidieri (Drake) S.Ortiz
- Macledium humile (Lawalrée) S.Ortiz
- Macledium kirkii (Harv.) S.Ortiz
- Macledium nanum (Welw. ex Hiern) S.Ortiz
- Macledium oblongum (Lawalrée & Mvukiy.) S.Ortiz
- Macledium plantaginifolium (O.Hoffm.) S.Ortiz
- Macledium poggei (O.Hoffm.) S.Ortiz
- Macledium pretoriense (C.A.Sm.) S.Ortiz
- Macledium relhanioides (Less.) S.Ortiz
- Macledium sessiliflorum (Harv.) S.Ortiz
- Macledium speciosum (DC.) S.Ortiz
- Macledium spinosum (L.) S.Ortiz
- Macledium zeyheri (Sond.) S.Ortiz
In southern Africa it is informally divided into the Cape and grassland groups:[3]
- Cape species:
- M. latifolium
- M. relhanioides
- M. spinosum
- Grassland species:
- M. pretoriense
- M. sessiliflorum subsp. sessiliflorum var. membranaceum
- M. speciosum
- M. zeyheri
References
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- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Macledium Cass". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ortiz, Santiago (Aug 2001). "Reinstatement of the Genus Macledium Cass. (Asteraceae, Mutisieae): Morphological and Phylogenetic Arguments". Taxon. 50 (3): 733–744. doi:10.2307/1223704. JSTOR 1223704.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Netnou, N.C. (2008). "A revision of the genera Dicoma Cass. and Macledium Cass". University of Johannesburg. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
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