Ageratina croatii R.M.King & H.Rob.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Ageratina

Characteristics

Coarse herbs or subshrubs to 1 m high, with few branches; stems yellowish-brown, terete, somewhat densely puberulous above. Leaves opposite; blades papyraceous, ovate, mostly 5-8 cm long and 1.5-4.0 cm wide, the base short-cuneate to rounded, trinervate, the margins closely doubly serrate, the apex narrowly acuminate, the upper and lower surfaces with puberulence mostly on the veins, the secondary veins few, strongly ascending; petioles slender, 10-25 mm long. Inflorescence somewhat lax, broadly corymbose-paniculate, the ultimate branches 1.5-5.0 mm long, densely puberulous. Heads ca. 4 mm high with 10-15 florets; involucral bracts ca. 15, eximbricate, in 2 series, linear-lanceolate, 3.5-4.0 mm long and 0.4-0.5 mm wide, bicostate, the tips short-acute with a short fringe of marginal hairs, nonscarious, the lateral margins narrowly scarious, the outer surface sparsely puberulous; corolla white?, ca. 2.3 mm long, the tube narrow, ca.
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1 mm long, with few hairs, the limb narrowly funnelform, with few hairs, the lobes short-triangular, ca. 0.3 mm long and wide, glabrous on inner surface and with numerous hairs on outer surface, without glands; anther thecae ca. 0.5 mm long. Achenes fusiform, ca. 1.3 mm long, with many short bristles on the ribs, without glands; carpopodium cylindrical, ca. 0.1 mm long, on a slender stipe, the cells mostly narrowly oblong; pappus of ca. 20 slender fragile scabrous bristles, mostly 2.5 mm long, the tips scarcely broader, the apical cells minutely apiculate, distinct series of very short bristles present.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Ageratina croatii world distribution map, present in Costa Rica and Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:6875-2
WFO ID wfo-0000020943
COL ID 65S7Q
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Synonyms

Ageratina croatii Ageratina almedae