One familiar species is Acmella oleracea, which has been widely cultivated for centuries. It is used for food and medicine, and as an insecticide and an ornamental plant. Its common use as an herbal remedy for toothache and oral infections earned it the nickname toothache plant.[4]
These are annual or perennial herbs with branching stems usually reaching 10 to 20 centimeters in length, growing prostrate or erect. The oppositely arranged leaves are smooth-edged or toothed, and usually have rough or soft hairs. The flower heads are usually solitary at the tips of the stem branches, or occasionally borne in inflorescences. There are several to many disc florets with bell-shaped throats and 4 or 5 triangular lobes, usually yellow, or sometimes orange. Some species lack ray florets, but some have 5 to 20 or more, usually in yellow or orange, but occasionally white or purple. The disc florets are bisexual, but any ray florets are pistillate.[3]
acmella, genus, snails, gastropod, genus, plants, family, asteraceae, described, genus, 1807, native, americas, been, introduced, asia, africa, pacific, islands, australia, ciliatascientific, classificationkingdom, plantaeclade, tracheophytesclade, angiosperms. For the genus of snails see Acmella gastropod Acmella is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae 3 4 described as a genus in 1807 5 2 It is native to the Americas and has been introduced to Asia Africa the Pacific islands and Australia 3 AcmellaAcmella ciliataScientific classificationKingdom PlantaeClade TracheophytesClade AngiospermsClade EudicotsClade AsteridsOrder AsteralesFamily AsteraceaeSubfamily AsteroideaeTribe HeliantheaeSubtribe SpilanthinaeGenus AcmellaRich ex Pers Type speciesAcmella repens Walter Rich 1 2 Synonyms 2 Spilanthes section Acmella Pers DC Athronia NeckOne familiar species is Acmella oleracea which has been widely cultivated for centuries It is used for food and medicine and as an insecticide and an ornamental plant Its common use as an herbal remedy for toothache and oral infections earned it the nickname toothache plant 4 These are annual or perennial herbs with branching stems usually reaching 10 to 20 centimeters in length growing prostrate or erect The oppositely arranged leaves are smooth edged or toothed and usually have rough or soft hairs The flower heads are usually solitary at the tips of the stem branches or occasionally borne in inflorescences There are several to many disc florets with bell shaped throats and 4 or 5 triangular lobes usually yellow or sometimes orange Some species lack ray florets but some have 5 to 20 or more usually in yellow or orange but occasionally white or purple The disc florets are bisexual but any ray florets are pistillate 3 Species EditAccepted species 6 Acmella alba L Her R K Jansen Acmella alpestris Griseb R K Jansen Acmella bellidioides Sm R K Jansen Acmella brachyglossa Cass Acmella calva DC R K Jansen Acmella caulirhiza Delile Acmella ciliata Kunth Cass Acmella darwinii D M Porter R K Jansen Acmella decumbens Sm R K Jansen Acmella filipes Greenm R K Jansen Acmella glaberrima Hassl R K Jansen Acmella grandiflora Turcz R K Jansen Acmella grisea Chodat R K Jansen Acmella iodiscaea A H Moore R K Jansen Acmella leptophylla DC R K Jansen Acmella leucantha Kunth R K Jansen Acmella lundellii R K Jansen Acmella oleracea L R K Jansen Acmella oppositifolia Lam R K Jansen Acmella paniculata Wall ex DC R K Jansen Acmella papposa Hemsl R K Jansen Acmella pilosa R K Jansen Acmella poliolepidica A H Moore R K Jansen Acmella psilocarpa R K Jansen Acmella pusilla Hook amp Arn R K Jansen Acmella radicans Jacq R K Jansen Acmella ramosa Hemsl R K Jansen Acmella repens Walter Rich ex Pers Acmella serratifolia R K Jansen Acmella sodiroi Hieron R K Jansen Acmella uliginosa Sw Cass References Edit lectotype designated by Jansen Syst Bot Monogr 8 19 1985 a b c Tropicos Acmella Pers a b c Acmella Richard Flora of North America a b Chung K et al 2008 Notes on Acmella Asteraceae Heliantheae in Taiwan PDF Bot Stud 49 73 82 Archived from the original PDF on 2014 11 03 Persoon Christiaan Hendrik 1807 Synopsis Plantarum 2 472 473 in Latin The Plant List A Working List of All Plant Species Retrieved June 5 2014 External links Edit Media related to Acmella at Wikimedia Commons GRIN Species Records of Acmella Germplasm Resources Information Network GRIN This Heliantheae article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Acmella amp oldid 1090675519, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
