Ainsliaea qianiana S.E.Freire

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Ainsliaea

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, 50-60 cm tall. Leaves in basal rosette; petiole 10-11 cm, winged; leaf blade elliptic or elliptic to ovate, 7.5-8.5 × 3.5-3.8 cm, subcarnose, palmate-pinnate veined, both surfaces glabrous, base abruptly rounded and decurrent into petiole, margin callose-denticulate, apex acute to subobtuse. Capitula sessile, commonly 3-5 clustered, arranged in spikes, 3-flowered; involucre cylindric, 3-4 mm in diam.; phyllaries 5-7-seriate, papery, abaxially glabrous, outer phyllaries linear to ovate, 2.8-3 mm, inner linear to ovate or linear to elliptic, 1.1-1.3 cm. Florets bisexual, chasmogamous, corollas pink, tubular, ca. 8 mm, deeply 5-lobed, anther appendages apiculate. Achenes oblong, 3-4 mm, densely pilose; pappus light brownish, 6-7 mm. Fl. Oct.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

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Distribution

Ainsliaea qianiana world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20009887-1
WFO ID wfo-0000020315
COL ID BCJ7
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Synonyms

Ainsliaea qianiana