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Crassocephalum
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Crassocephalum

Crassocephalum is a genus the common names of whose members include ragleaf, thickhead, and bologi. Several species are raised as leaf vegetables and used for medicine, especially in West Africa. Similar to Senecio, but differing in never having ray florets. A calyculus of short bracts (c.1/4 to 1/5 of the length of the inner phyllaries) is present. The genus is typically thistle-like in appearance, but all parts are soft and not spiny.

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15 branches of this genus, most-observed first

redflower ragleaf

speciesCrassocephalum crepidioides

Yoruban bologi

speciesCrassocephalum rubens

Crassocephalum montuosum

speciesCrassocephalum montuosum

Crassocephalum vitellinum

speciesCrassocephalum vitellinum

Crassocephalum picridifolium

speciesCrassocephalum picridifolium

Crassocephalum ducis-aprutii

speciesCrassocephalum ducis-aprutii

Crassocephalum macropappus

speciesCrassocephalum macropappus

Crassocephalum uvens

speciesCrassocephalum uvens

Crassocephalum paludum

speciesCrassocephalum paludum

Crassocephalum bauchiense

speciesCrassocephalum bauchiense

Crassocephalum bougheyanum

speciesCrassocephalum bougheyanum

Crassocephalum gracile

speciesCrassocephalum gracile

Crassocephalum togoense

speciesCrassocephalum togoense

Crassocephalum splendens

speciesCrassocephalum splendens

Crassocephalum libericum

speciesCrassocephalum libericum

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 147305.