| Dicotyledon | Literature for Emilia fosbergii
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2020. |
| Asteraceae -- The Sunflower Family | Bibliography |
| Emilia fosbergii | |
Common name(s): pualele (Ni`ihau) |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Place of origin unknown, probably an allotetraploid hybrid between E. coccinea and E. sonchifolia in tropical Asia, now a pantropical weed.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kure, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Annual herb, 20–100 cm tall, glabrous or sparsely arachnoid-villous proximally; stems 1, often somewhat lax, simple or branched. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves ± equally distributed, sessile and auriculate to winged-petiolate and clasping; blade oblanceolate to pandurate, mostly 5–10 cm long, 3–5 cm wide (distal ones smaller, bractlike), margin entire, coarsely dentate, or weakly lobed. |
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| Flowers |
Heads with campanulate to cylindric involucres, 9–14 mm, relatively thick, length 1.5–2(–3) times diameter, involucral bracts usually 8 or 13; florets usually 50–60+, surpassing involucres by 2–4 mm, corollas pinkish, purplish, or reddish, lobes mostly 1–1.7 mm; style appendages ca. 0.2 mm. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 20. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |
