9605.000 Crepis L.

Description of the genus

Subscapose perennial herbs (in ours). Leaves radical and rosulate or cauline and alternate. Capitula solitary or arranged in a corymb. Involucre obconic, becoming cylindric-campanulate. Phyllaries 2-several-seriate. Receptacle without scales, pitted. Florets yellow. Achenes ± terete and equal-ribbed, rough with ascending projections on the ribs, distinctly beaked (in ours). Pappus 1-many-seriate of barbellate, persistent setae.

Worldwide: c.200 species in northern temperate zones, southern Africa and South America

Zambia: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
hypochaeridea (DC.) Thell.	N,W,C	Description, Image

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Flora of Burundi: Crepis
Flora of Malawi: Crepis
Flora of Mozambique: Crepis
Flora of Zimbabwe: Crepis

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Crepis
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Crepis
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Crepis
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Wikipedia: Crepis