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Lipochaeta tenuis

O.Deg. & Sherff (1933)

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:

Leaves: opposite Leaves ovate to deltate, 2.2-4.4 cm long, 1-2.1 cm wide, sometimes with 2 or 4 basal lobes and a long, spatulate, terminal segment Apex with a spatulate terminal segment.

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: Bot. Gaz. 95: 102 (1933)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:343 (O [as Lipochaeta tenuis]); Wagner & Robinson 2002:555 (COMBNOV:Syn. L. tenuis = Melanthera tenuis); Orchard 2013:405 (proposed COMBNOV:Syn. M. tenuis = Wollastonia tenuis, KEY)

Occurrences

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