Asteraceae
Emilia

Emilia fosbergii Nicolson

First published in Phytologia 32: 34 (1975)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical America. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as a medicine and for food.

Descriptions

The Useful Plants of Boyacá project

Conservation
Not Evaluated.
Morphology General Habit
Herb.
Distribution
Introduced in Colombia.
Ecology
Alt. 350 - 1600 m.
[UPB]

Distribution
Biogeografic region: Andean. Elevation range: 350–1600 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Caldas, Guainía, Valle del Cauca.
Habit
Herb.
[UPFC]

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Morphology General Habit
A short-lived annual herb up to 60 cm tall or more (but often much less), nearly glabrous or thinly pubescent
Morphology Leaves
Leaves (except the lowest) sessile and clasping, oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, 4–8 cm long, acute, and with irregularly toothed or serrate margins
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Heads few in loose corymbs; involucre 10–14 mm long; florets crimson or scarlet, 11–14.5 mm long, mostly numbering 40–65 in a head
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Achenes 3.5–4 mm long, hispidulous on the angles; pappus of soft white hairs ca. 7 mm long.
Distribution
Grand Cayman. Now pantropical.
Ecology
A common weed of fields and waste places.
[Cayman]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/

Vernacular
árnica de montaña, borlita, clavelillo, miona, pincelito, yerba socialista
[UNAL]

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Adventicia en Colombia; Alt. 350 - 1600 m.; Andes.
Morphology General Habit
Hierba
Conservation
No Evaluada
[CPLC]

Uses

Use Medicines Unspecified Medicinal Disorders
Medicinal (State of the World's Plants 2016).
[UPB]

Use Food
Used for food.
Use Medicines
Medical uses.
[UPFC]

Common Names

English
Florida Tasselflower

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Living Collection Database

    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0