{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Amellus tridactylus 48288034.jpg | image_caption = ''Amellus tridactylus'' in South Africa | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Amellus | authority = L. 1759, conserved name, not P.Browne 1756 nor Adans. 1763 nor Ortega ex Willd. 1803<ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?name=Amellus&commonname= Tropicos, search for ''Amellus'']</ref> | type_species = ''Amellus lychnitis'' (syn of ''A. asteroides)'' | type_species_authority = L. }}

'''''Amellus''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1759.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/587144#page/557/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1759. Systema Naturae, Editio Decima 2: 1225, 1377]</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40011798 Tropicos, ''Amellus'' L.]</ref>

''Amellus'' is native to southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/Default.aspx?Page=NameSearch&searchText=Amellus&searchField=NameFull |title=Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist |access-date=2014-11-05 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141105204828/http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/Default.aspx?Page=NameSearch&searchText=Amellus&searchField=NameFull |archive-date=2014-11-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

; Species<ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Amellus The Plant List, search for Amellus]</ref> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *''Amellus alternifolius'' <small>Roth</small> - Cape Province *''Amellus asteroides'' <small>(L.) Druce</small> - Cape Province *''Amellus capensis'' <small>(Walp.) Hutch.</small> - Cape Province *''Amellus coilopodius'' <small>DC.</small> - Cape Province *''Amellus epaleaceus'' <small>O.Hoffm.</small> - Namibia, Cape Province *''Amellus flosculosus'' <small>DC.</small> - Namibia, Cape Province *''Amellus microglossus'' <small>DC.</small> - Cape Province; naturalised in Britain *''Amellus nanus'' <small>DC.</small> - Namibia, Cape Province *''Amellus reductus'' <small>Rommel</small> - Namibia, Botswana *''Amellus strigosus'' <small>(Thunb.) Less.</small> - Cape Province *''Amellus tenuifolius'' <small>Burm.f.</small> - Cape Province *''Amellus tridactylus'' <small>DC.</small> - Cape Province, Free State }}

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Category:Astereae Category:Asteraceae genera Category:Flora of Southern Africa

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