Description
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Scandent to ascending suffrutescent perennial herbs 0.5–2 m tall. Leaves simple, 3.5–13.5 cm long including petiole, blades lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 2.3–9.5 × 1.2–4.5 cm, glabrous, margins serrate, apex acute. Heads 1–3, in diffuse cymes terminating main stem and lateral branches, 8–15 mm in diameter excluding rays, peduncles (2–)3.5–14 cm long, glabrous; outer involucral bracts 8–12 mm long, broad, well differentiated from inner bracts; ray florets 14–20+ per head, sterile, rays yellow, 10–18 × 3–4 mm; disk florets ca. 50, perfect, corollas yellow. Achenes black, straight, 7–10 × 1–2 mm, slightly keeled, glabrous; pappus of 2 irregular antrorse barbed awns.
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- Warren L. Wagner, John R. Clark, David H. Lorence
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- Wagner W, Clark J, Lorence D (2014) Revision of endemic Marquesas Islands Bidens (Asteraceae, Coreopsideae) PhytoKeys 38: 37–67
- author
- Warren L. Wagner
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- John R. Clark
- author
- David H. Lorence
Distribution
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Marquesas Islands, known only from the central summit region of Fatu Hiva (Tevaiua, Hanativa, and Tekau), 670–870 m.
- license
- cc-by-3.0
- copyright
- Warren L. Wagner, John R. Clark, David H. Lorence
- bibliographic citation
- Wagner W, Clark J, Lorence D (2014) Revision of endemic Marquesas Islands Bidens (Asteraceae, Coreopsideae) PhytoKeys 38: 37–67
- author
- Warren L. Wagner
- author
- John R. Clark
- author
- David H. Lorence