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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands,
endemic to
Maui.
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Habit
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Small to large shrubs up to 2.5 m tall; stems rigid, robust, ascending, woody near growing point, rather conspicuously and persistently white hispid with appressed or spreading hairs, often also glandular glutinous.
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Leaves
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Leaves ternate, opposite, or alternate, ascending and imbricate, crowded to lax and spreading, coriaceous, mildly balsam-scented when fresh, narrowly elliptic to ovate-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 2-5 cm long, 4-17 mm wide, 3-nerved or rarely obscurely 5-nerved, glabrate to somewhat rough hispid, occasionally markedly glandular glutinous, margins entire or minutely 1-4-toothed in upper 1/2, sometimes conspicuously revolute, rigidly hispid-ciliate or spinulose-ciliate, apex acute to obtuse, base rounded to slightly attenuate-truncate.
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Flowers
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Heads usually 5-35 in subcompact to very lax, pyramidal to usually narrow, oblong, often deflexed, racemose or paniculate inflorescences usually 2-20 cm long, 2-15 cm wide, peduncles white villous and often glandular, ultimate ones usually 3-20 mm long or occasionally up to 60 mm long; receptacle high-convex to broadly conical, false involucre consisting of a single series of 6-14 peripheral, strongly connate receptacular bracts 6-10 mm long, usually villous to appressed hispid, often also glandular; florets (6-)12-25(-30) per head, corollas yellowish orange, usually 4.5-6.2 mm long, glabrous, eglandular; pappus of usually 15-23 very narrowly linear, ascending-setose bristles usually 5-6.5 mm long.
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Fruit
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Achenes usually 4.5-6 mm long, glabrous to sparsely hispidulous or villosulous.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 26*
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Notes
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At least partially self-incompatible.
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