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Helodeaster helenae

(C.N.Forbes & Lydgate) 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: Rhizomatous perennial herbs, usually branched at base; scapes (5.5-)10-35 cm long.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves in a basal rosette or distributed 3-12 cm along the ascending stem spatulate to oblong, rarely obovate, 1.2-3.5(-5.4) cm long, 0.3-1.3 cm wide sessile and +/- clasping the stem, with 2-9 bracts per scape that become progressively larger and more leaf-like toward base sparsely to moderately hirsute, especially on upper surface, margins, and veins, with few to numerous scattered, subsessile, globose glands, occasionally villous Margins serrate in upper 1/2, hirsute.

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. 1990:330 (K [as Lagenifera helenae]); Nicolson 1996:341 (Lagenophora proposed as conserved genus name); Nesom 2000:58/Nesom 2001a:514 (NOM:Syn. Lagenifera helenae = Keysseria helenae)

Occurrences

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