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Helodeaster erici

(C.N.Forbes) G.L.Nesom (2020)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Genus: Helodeaster

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Short, rhizomatous perennial herbs.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Basal. oblong, rarely oblong-oblanceolate, 0.8-1.3(-1.8) cm long, 0.2-0.45 cm wide sessile and +/- clasping the stem, with l-3 bracts per scape that are slightly larger and more leaf-like toward base glabrous, sometimes sparsely hirtellous on margins and veins, the hairs usually golden or purplish, rarely also with a few scattered, subsessile, globose glands Margins serrate in upper 1/2, glabrous or sparsely hirtellous.

Flowers:

Fruit: Fruit a simple; dry; achene (cypsela)

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Phytoneuron 2020-54: 2 (2020)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:329 (K [as Lagenifera erici]); Nicolson 1996:341 (Lagenophora proposed as conserved genus name); Nesom 2000:58/Nesom 2001a:514 (NOM:Syn. Lagenifera erici = Keysseria erici)

Occurrences

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