Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Asteraceae
Asteraceae
Description:
Species Description - Stem appressed-pubescent above, glabrate below, rather widely branched, 3-8 dm. high. Leaves thin, ovate to elliptic, 3-10 cm. long, triplinerved, lowserrate, acute at the apex, narrowed at the base into short margined petioles, loosely appressed-pubescent above, rather densely appressed-pubescent beneath; heads few or several together in nearly sessile, axillary or terminal clusters; involucre about 8 mm. high, its 1 or 2 outer bracts pubescent, oblong-lanceolate, the inner narrower, glabrous; achenes 4-5 mm. long, those of the rayflowers with ascending marginal bristles and 2 short awns, those of the diskflowers with 2 subulate awns.
Species Description - Stem appressed-pubescent above, glabrate below, rather widely branched, 3-8 dm. high. Leaves thin, ovate to elliptic, 3-10 cm. long, triplinerved, lowserrate, acute at the apex, narrowed at the base into short margined petioles, loosely appressed-pubescent above, rather densely appressed-pubescent beneath; heads few or several together in nearly sessile, axillary or terminal clusters; involucre about 8 mm. high, its 1 or 2 outer bracts pubescent, oblong-lanceolate, the inner narrower, glabrous; achenes 4-5 mm. long, those of the rayflowers with ascending marginal bristles and 2 short awns, those of the diskflowers with 2 subulate awns.
Distribution:
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|