Description
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Climbing or scandent shrubs, young branches terete, inconspicuously ribbed, puberulous. Leaves 9–25 by 4–15 cm, elliptic or obovate, margin entire, apex acute, base cuneate, chartaceous; upper surface puberulous without glands; lower surface puberulous with whip-shaped hairs, cylindrical hairs and capitate glands, lateral veins 4–11-paired; petioles up to 3.5 cm long. Capitulescences terminal and axillary, paniculate. Capitula campanulate, 12–15 mm long, pedunculate. Receptacle flat, 5–5.5 mm in diam., hairy. Involucres campanulate, in 5–6 series, 10–12 mm long, 8–8.5 mm in diam. Phyllaries imbricate, green, margin piliferous, outer surface puberulous without glands; the outer and the middle ones ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse; the inner ones obovate-lanceolate, apex obtuse. Florets 20–30; corollas funnelform, dark purple, glandular; corolla tubes 7–8 mm long; corolla lobes ca. 2 mm long. Anthers 3–3.5 mm long, apical appendage acute, base acute. Styles white, 7–7.5 mm long, branches 3.5–4 mm long. Achenes subterete, 2.8–3 mm long, 10-ribbed, covered with dense hairs without glands. Pappus in 2 series of bristles, the inner ones 6.5–8.5 mm long, persistent.
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- cc-by-3.0
- copyright
- Sukhonthip Bunwong, Pranom Chantaranothai, Sterling C. Keeley
- bibliographic citation
- Bunwong S, Chantaranothai P, Keeley S (2014) Revisions and key to the Vernonieae (Compositae) of Thailand PhytoKeys 37: 25–101
- author
- Sukhonthip Bunwong
- author
- Pranom Chantaranothai
- author
- Sterling C. Keeley
Distribution
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Thailand: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lampang, Phrae, Kanchanaburi. Myanmar.
- license
- cc-by-3.0
- copyright
- Sukhonthip Bunwong, Pranom Chantaranothai, Sterling C. Keeley
- bibliographic citation
- Bunwong S, Chantaranothai P, Keeley S (2014) Revisions and key to the Vernonieae (Compositae) of Thailand PhytoKeys 37: 25–101
- author
- Sukhonthip Bunwong
- author
- Pranom Chantaranothai
- author
- Sterling C. Keeley