''Acilepis'' is a genus of
Asia
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n plants in the tribe
Vernonieae within the family
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
.
[Don, David. 1825. Prodromus Florae Nepalensis 169]
in Latin
Taxonomy
Species
, ''Plants of the World Online'' has 37 accepted species:
[
; formerly included][Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist ]
numerous species now considered members of other genera: '' Dicoma Pacourina''
* '' Acilepis cirsiifolia - Pacourina edulis''
* '' Acilepis lanata - Dicoma tomentosa''
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q9581019
Asteraceae genera
Vernonieae