Literature for Lipochaeta connata Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Lipochaeta connata subsp. acris Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Lipochaeta connata subsp. connata Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
Asteraceae -- The Sunflower Family	Bibliography
Lipochaeta connata

General Information
Distribution
Habit	Suffruticose perennial herbs; stems erect, 10-20 dm long.
Leaves	Leaves opposite, rarely ternate, ovate to broadly elliptic or lanceolate, 8-19(-25) cm long, 4-9.5(-12) cm wide, both surfaces strigillose, petioles 0.6-3 cm long and with winged margins or sessile and the bases connate-perfoliate.
Flowers	Heads in compound cymes; outer involucral bracts usually purple near apex, lanceolate to ovate, 3.5-6.5 mm long, 1.3-2.8 mm wide, strigillose, apex attenuate to acute; chaffy bracts usually purple near apex; ray florets 8-16 per head, rays oblong, 5-13 mm long, 2.3-4.8 mm wide; disk florets 20-40 per head, corollas 4-merous, 3-5 mm long, lobes 0.8-1.3 mm long; anthers 1.4-1.8 mm long; pappus of connate scales forming a corona or variously reduced and with awns ca. 1.6 mm long.
Fruit	Achenes tuberculate, with wings up to 0.5 mm long, ray achenes 2.1-3 mm long, 1.1-1.7 mm wide, disk achenes 2.5-3.3 mm long, 1-1.7 mm wide.
Chromosomes	2n = 52*