Crassocephalum

Crassocephalum rubens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Asteraceae
Subfamilia: Asteroideae
Tribus: Senecioneae
Subtribus: Senecioninae
Genus: Crassocephalum
Species: C. baoulense – C. bauchiense – C. bougheyanum – C. coeruleum – C. crepidioides – C. ducis-aprutii – C. effusum – C. goetzenii – C. gracile – C. guineense – C. kassnerianum – C. lemuricum – C. libericum – C. macropappus – C. manampanihense – C. montuosum – C. paludum – C. × picridifolium – C. radiatum – C. rubens – C. sonchifolium – C. splendens – C. togoense – C. torreanum – C. uvens – C. vitellinum

Source(s) of checklist:
Tropicos.org 2018. Crassocephalum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 Feb. 2018.

Name

Crassocephalum Moench, Methodus: 516 (1794).

• Type species: Crassocephalum cernuum (L.f.) Moench (= Crassocephalum rubens (Juss. ex Jacq.) S.Moore (Belcher, 1955))

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Cremocephalum Cass. in F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 34: 389 (1825), nom. superfl. pro Crassocephalum Moench
• Heterotypic
  • Senecio subg. Gynuropsis Muschl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 43: 38 (1909).
• Misapplied names
  • Gynura sensu Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 2: 445 (1873), non Cass., nom. cons.
    • Gynura is the correct name when it and Crassocephalum are synonymized.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa Regional: Macaronesia Cape Verde. Regional: West Tropical Africa Benin, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo. Regional: West-Central Tropical Africa Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Rwanda, Zaire. Regional: Northeast Tropical Africa Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan. Regional: East Tropical Africa Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda. Regional: South Tropical Africa Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Regional: Southern Africa Botswana, Cape Provinces, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Northern Provinces. Regional: Western Indian Ocean Comoros, Mauritius, Madagascar, Réunion. Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Western Asia Turkey (introduced). Regional: Arabian Peninsula Yemen. Regional: China China South-Central, China Southeast, Tibet (introduced). Regional: Eastern Asia Japan, Korea (introduced). Continental: Asia-Tropical (introduced) Regional: Indian Subcontinent Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka. Regional: Indo-China Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam. Regional: Malesia Jawa, Malaya, Philippines, Christmas Island. Regional: Papuasia New Guinea. Continental: Australasia (introduced) Regional: Australia Norfolk Islands, New South Wales, Queensland. Continental: Pacific (introduced) Regional: Southwestern Pacific Fiji, Niue, Tonga. Regional: South-Central Pacific Marquesas, Society Islands. Regional: Northwestern Pacific Caroline Islands, Marianas. Regional: North-Central Pacific Hawaii. Continental: Northern America Regional: Southeastern U.S.A. Florida (introduced). Continental: Southern America (introduced) Regional: Central America Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras. Regional: Caribbean Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Moench, C. 1794. Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici et Agri Marburgensis vol. 1–2, 780 pp., Marburgi Cattorum: Nova Libraria Academiae. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.304 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Belcher, R.O. 1955. The Typification of Crassocephalum Moench and Gynura Cass. Kew Bulletin 10(3): 455–465 DOI: 10.2307/4109235 Reference page. 
• Jeffrey, C. 1986. The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV. Kew Bulletin 41(4): 873–943. DOI: 10.2307/4102988 Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Crassocephalum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 Jun 25. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2023. Crassocephalum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 25 Jun 2023.
• International Plant Names Index. 2023. Crassocephalum. Published online. Accessed: 25 Jun 2023.
• Hassler, M. 2023. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Crassocephalum. Accessed: 25 Jun 2023.

Vernacular names

English: Ragleaf

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