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Description

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Perennial plants. Stems scandent, young branches terete, white, sericeous. Leaves simple, alternate, petiolate, sericeous with horn-shaped hairs, lamina elliptic, margin entire or serrate, apex acute rounded, base rounded, subcoriaceous. Capitulescences terminal or axillary. Capitula discoid, homogamous, pedunculate, florets bisexual and fertile. Involucres imbricate, in 3–4 series, 3–4 mm long, glandular without hairs. Corollas purple to white, actinomorphic, corolla lobes 5. Anthers 5, syngenesious. Styles 2-branched, inner surface covered with stigmatic papillae, outer surface covered with sweeping hairs on the outer surface reaching below style bifurcation. Achenes turbinate, 4–7-ribbed, ca. 2 mm long, glandular without hair, carpopodium present. Pappus in 2 series of bristles, persistent, the outer ones are shorter than the inner ones. Pollen echinate, 3-colporate, with micropuncta. One species is recognized in Thailand.
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cc-by-3.0
copyright
Sukhonthip Bunwong, Pranom Chantaranothai, Sterling C. Keeley
bibliographic citation
Bunwong S, Chantaranothai P, Keeley S (2014) Revisions and key to the Vernonieae (Compositae) of Thailand PhytoKeys 37: 25–101
author
Sukhonthip Bunwong
author
Pranom Chantaranothai
author
Sterling C. Keeley
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