Literature for Lipochaeta lobata
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Lipochaeta lobata subsp. leptophylla Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Lipochaeta lobata subsp. lobata Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
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Asteraceae -- The Sunflower Family | Bibliography |
Lipochaeta lobata |
General Information | |
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Distribution | |
Habit |
Suffruticose perennial herbs; stems arcuate-spreading to decumbent, 5-15 dm long. |
Leaves |
Leaves subcoriaceous to herbaceous, lanceolate-linear to ovate, 4-9.7 cm long, 1-5.6 cm wide, occasionally with 2 or 4 basal lobes or with undulate margins, both surfaces sparsely strigillose, margins serrate, sometimes scarcely so, petioles 0.2-0.5 cm long and with winged margins or sessile and the bases narrowly connate-perfoliate. |
Flowers |
Heads solitary or in clusters of 2-3 per node, rarely more; outer involucral bracts oblong to lanceolate, 4.7-8.2(-12) mm long, 1.7-4.7 mm wide, sparsely strigillose, apex rounded to long-attenuate; chaffy bracts purple near apex; ray florets 8-15 per head, rays oblong, (6-)7.5-14 mm long, 2.1-4.5 mm wide; disk florets 20-65 per head, corollas 4-merous, 3.6-4.4 mm long; anthers 1.5-2 mm long; pappus of connate scales forming an uneven corona tipped with short deciduous awns. |
Fruit |
Achenes tuberculate, ray achenes 2.5-3.2 mm long, 1.1-1.5 mm wide, with wings ca. 0.4 mm long, disk achenes 2.8-3.7 mm long, 1-1.3 mm wide, with wings ca. 0.5 mm long. |
Chromosomes |
2n = 52* |