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|accepted_name=Emilia
|accepted_authority=Cassini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|place=1817: 68. 1817
|year=1817
}}
|common_names=Tasselflower;pualele
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Emilia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Emilia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Presumably for someone named Emile or Emilie; the author mentioned no one
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 540, 543, 607
|treatment_page=page 605
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>(sometimes persisting, usually monocarpic) [perennials], mostly 20–100 cm (taprooted; often glaucous). <b>Stems</b> usually 1, erect or lax (branched throughout or distally). <b>Leaves</b> mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile (bases usually auriculate, clasping); blades pinnately nerved, mostly ovate to obovate or oblanceolate [lanceolate] (sometimes pinnately lobed, sometimes lyrate-pinnatifid), ultimate margins entire or toothed, faces usually glabrous, sometimes villous or ± arachnose. <b>Heads</b> discoid, in cymiform or corymbiform arrays. <b>Calyculi</b> 0. <b>Involucres</b> urceolate to campanulate or cylindric, mostly 2–8+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, usually 8 or 13 in 1–2 series, erect (reflexed in fruit), distinct (margins interlocking and coherent early), mostly linear to oblong, equal, margins scarious (glabrous or villous, apices usually green or slightly darkened, seldom blackish). <b>Receptacles</b> flat to convex, smooth or obscurely foveolate, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets 20–50[100+], all bisexual and fertile or inner functionally staminate; corollas usually pinkish, lavender, or purplish, rarely reddish [orange, white, yellow], tubes shorter than to equaling funnelform to cylindric throats, lobes 5, erect to spreading, lance-ovate; style branches stigmatic in 2 lines, apices truncate or truncate-penicillate (appendages essentially 0). <b>Cypselae</b> (stramineous to brown) fusiform-prismatic, 5-ribbed, glabrous but for stout, blunt hairs on ribs; pappi fragile, of 80–100+, white, barbellulate bristles. <b>x</b> = 5.</span><!--

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|distribution=chiefly Old World tropics;some weedy in New World tropics.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 50–100 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>D. H. Nicolson (1980) pointed out that <i>Emilia</i> is taxonomically complicated with poorly defined, weedy species and an involved nomenclatural history. <i>Emilia</i> coccinea (Sims) G. Don is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental; it is not known to escape and persist in the flora. It keys here to <i>E. fosbergii</i>, from which it differs in having involucres 6–9 mm (lengths typically 1.5 times diameters). In cultivation, it has bright red to dark orange corollas. Nicolson provided drawings that illustrate the distinctions.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=barkley1978c
|text=Barkley, T. M. and A. Cronquist. 1978b. Emilia. In: N. L. Britton et al., eds. 1905+. North American Flora.... 47+ vols. New York. Ser. 2, part 10, pp. 147–150.
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|id=nicolson1980a
|text=Nicolson, D. H. 1980. A summary of cytological information on Emilia and the taxonomy of four Pacific taxa of Emilia (Asteraceae: Senecioneae). Syst. Bot. 5: 391–407.
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==Key==
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|1
|Leaves mostly in proximal 1/2, usually petiolate, blades ovate to obovate or oblanceolate, mostly 5–12 × 1.5–4.5 cm, margins often deeply lobed to lyrate-pinnatifid; involucres mostly urceolate to campanulate, relatively slender, lengths mostly 3–4 times diams.; florets 15–30[–40]
|[[Emilia sonchifolia|Emilia sonchifolia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves ± equally distributed, sessile and auriculate to winged-petiolate and clasping, blades oblanceolate to pandurate, mostly 5–10 × 3–5 cm, margins entire, toothed, or weakly lobed; involucres mostly campanulate to cylindric, relatively thick, lengths 1.5–2(–3) times diams.; florets usually 50–60+
|[[Emilia fosbergii|Emilia fosbergii]]
|}
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name=Emilia
|author=Theodore M. Barkley†
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Linny Heagy
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=chiefly Old World tropics;some weedy in New World tropics.
|introduced=true
|reference=barkley1978c;nicolson1980a
|publication title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|publication year=1817
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Emilia
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