Genus of flowering plants
Athanasia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.[2][3]
- Species
Athanasia is native to southern Africa.[1] The name is derived from the Greek a-, 'without', and thanatos 'death', alluding to the persistent dry involucral bracts.
- Athanasia adenantha (Harv.) Källersjö
- Athanasia alba Källersjö
- Athanasia bremeri Källersjö
- Athanasia calophylla Källersjö
- Athanasia capitata (L.) L.
- Athanasia cochlearifolia Källersjö
- Athanasia crenata (L.) L.
- Athanasia crithmifolia (L.) L.
- Athanasia cuneifolia Lam.
- Athanasia dentata (L.) L.
- Athanasia elsiae Källersjö
- Athanasia filiformis L.f.
- Athanasia flexuosa Thunb.
- Athanasia grandiceps Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
- Athanasia hirsuta Thunb.
- Athanasia humilis Källersjö
- Athanasia imbricata Harv. (Critically Endangered[4]); Western Cape, South Africa. From the foothills of the Riviersonderend Mountains between Stormsvlei and the Breede River.
- Athanasia inopinata (Hutch.) Källersjö
- Athanasia juncea (DC.) D.Dietr.
- Athanasia leptocephala Källersjö
- Athanasia linifolia Burm.f.
- Athanasia microcephala (DC.) D.Dietr.
- Athanasia microphylla DC.
- Athanasia minuta (L.f.) Källersjö
- Athanasia oocephala (DC.) Källersjö
- Athanasia pachycephala DC.
- Athanasia pectinata L.f.
- Athanasia pinnata L.f.
- Athanasia pubescens (L.) L.
- Athanasia quinquedentata Thunb.
- Athanasia rugulosa E.Mey. ex DC.
- Athanasia scabra Thunb.
- Athanasia sertulifera DC.
- Athanasia spathulata (DC.) D.Dietr.
- Athanasia tomentosa Thunb.
- Athanasia trifurcata (L.) L.
- Athanasia vestita (Thunb.) Druce
- Athanasia virgata Jacq.
- Athanasia viridis Källersjö
References
- ^ a b Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1763. Species Plantarum, Editio Secunda 2: 1180-1182 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Athanasia L.
- ^ The IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
