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Lipochaeta tenuifolia

A.Gray (1861)

This name is accepted

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

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Suffruticose perennial herbs.

Stems:

Roots: Roots rooting along lower surface.

Leaves: opposite appearing to be 6 leaves per node, leaflets 3-8.5 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, sparsely strigillose, margins deeply dissected, ultimate divisions usually cut clear to midrib

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

O'ahu Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 5: 131 (1861)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:343 (O [as Lipochaeta tenuifolia]); Wagner & Robinson 2002:554 (COMBNOV:Syn. L. tenuifolia = Melanthera tenuifolia); Orchard 2013:404 (proposed COMBNOV:Syn. M. tenuifolia = Wollastonia tenuifolia, KEY)

Occurrences

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