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Abrotanella Cass.

Genus

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae

Characteristics

Perennial herbs. Leaves sessile, with sunken glands; venation obscure. Capitula disciform, sessile or subsessile at anthesis, but sometimes subsequently developing a peduncle, ecalyculate; involucral bracts free. Florets: disc florets sometimes functionally male (all Australian species); corolla limb variously coloured; anthers caudate; style undivided (functionally male florets) or shortly branched, truncate, crowned by papillae if functional, without terminal appendage. Achenes homomorphic, obovoid. Pappus absent.
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Capitula small, solitary or clustered (occ. only 2 together), sessile or on short scapes, heterogamous, discoid; phyll. few, in 2 series, subequal; receptacle nude. Anthers obtuse to pointed at base; style-arms of disk-florets short, truncate; pappus 0. Achenes 4-angled to terete or fusiform. Some 20 spp. of small ± mosslike glab. (or very nearly so) herbs with alt. entire lvs; of Fuegia, Falkland Is, Australia, Tasmania, N.Z. (these endemic).
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

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Distribution

Abrotanella world distribution map, present in Australia and New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:7369-1
WFO ID wfo-4000000058
COL ID LS3
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Synonyms

Abrotanella

Lower taxons

Abrotanella muscosa Abrotanella trilobata Abrotanella trichoachaenia Abrotanella caespitosa Abrotanella purpurea Abrotanella filiformis Abrotanella rostrata Abrotanella inconspicua Abrotanella papuana Abrotanella rosulata Abrotanella spathulata Abrotanella patearoa Abrotanella diemii Abrotanella forsterioides Abrotanella nivigena Abrotanella linearis Abrotanella scapigera Abrotanella pusilla Abrotanella linearifolia Abrotanella emarginata Abrotanella fertilis Abrotanella submarginata
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