Duhaldea forrestii (J.Anthony) Anderb.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Duhaldea

Characteristics

Shrubs, 40-100 cm tall, multibranched; old branches gray or brownish gray, 3-4 mm, young branches reddish brown, pubescent, clustered with dense leaves. Leaves elliptic or oblanceolate, 2-7 × 0.7-3 cm, subleathery, abaxially densely pubescent, base cuneate, margin shallowly and sparsely serrulate, apex acute. Capitula obovoid, ca. 1 × 1-1.5 cm, single or several in racemes. Involucre campanulate, 8-10 mm; phyllaries 4-or 5-seriate, linear-lanceolate, pubescent, ciliate, outer ones shorter than inner ones. Marginal florets radiate; corollas ca. 9 mm; lamina linear-oblong, ca. 6 × 1.5 mm. Disk florets ca. 5 mm. Achenes narrowly terete, ca. 3 mm, whitish pubescent. Pappus whitish, nearly as long as disk florets, of ca. 20 bristles. Fl. Aug, fr. Nov.
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Growth form shrub
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

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Distribution

Duhaldea forrestii world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:962578-1
WFO ID wfo-0000116984
COL ID 38248
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Synonyms

Duhaldea forrestii Inula forrestii