Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
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.
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      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*