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Description

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Erect perennial herbs. Stems erect, pubescent with T-shaped hairs. Leaves simple, alternate, petiolate; lamina ovate, pubescent. Capitulescences laxly cymose with capitula solitary or 2 or 3 in a group. Capitula discoid, campanulate, pedunculate, homogamous; florets fertile. Involucre campanulate. Phyllaries imbricate with serrate or entire margins. Florets 15–25; corollas funnelform, purplish or whitish; corolla lobes 5. Anthers 5, purplish or yellowish, syngenesious, exerted. Styles purple, 2-branched, without enlarged basal node, inner surface covered with stigmatic papillae, outer surface and lower style shaft covered with sweeping hairs reaching to below style bifurcation. Achenes 7–10-ribbed, glandular, with vermicular series of idioblasts on the surfaces; achene walls with distinct fibrous layer inside, without raphids, base without carpopodium. Pollen echinolophate, sub-3-colporate, pores in short colpus formed of two partially fused lacunae. One species is recognized in Thailand.
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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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