Lepidaploa
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs, erect or less frequently clambering. Stems usually much branched. Leaves alternate, sessile or petiolate; blades simple. Capitula homogamous, discoid, with 8-35 flowers, each more or less sessile, solitary or in terminal or axillary cymes; involucre campanulate, the phyllaries persistent, in 3-6 series. Flowers bisexual; corollas actinomorphic, narrowly campanulate, violet or less frequently white, usually pubescent or glandular, especially on the lobes; stamens 5, the anthers connate; ovary inferior, the style usually hispidulous, with 2 stigmatic branches. Fruit an angular achene, usually with 8-10 longitudinal ribs; pappus in 2 series, the inner of bristles and the outer of short, irregular scales. A neotropical genus of about 120 species.