Erlangea Sch.Bip.

Erlangea (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae

Characteristics

 Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, sessile; indument of simple multicellular hairs with an apical straight elongated cell. Capitula terminal, solitary or forming lax corymbiform cymes, homogamous, discoid; phyllaries 2-5-seriate, imbricate, subequal or the inner progressively longer, the outer sometimes foliaceous. Florets many, purplish, exserted, tube cylindric, distally infundibuliform, lobes 5, usually hirsute. Achenes oblong-obovoid, prismatic and 3-6-angled or-ribbed, pitted and glandular between the ribs, pilose on the ribs; pappus of few caducous bristles, barbellate.
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Achenes narrowly oblong-obovoid and c. 4-ribbed (prismatic and 3–6-angled), rounded at the apex, rugulose and with globose glandular trichomes sunk in pits between the ribs, short appressed setae often also present between and on the ribs, otherwise glabrous; pappus 1-seriate of caducous coarsely barbellate or subplumose setae.
Involucres broadly campanulate-cyathiform; phyllaries diverging somewhat, increasing in size to the inside, membranous or scarious with a narrow subhyaline margin, obscurely 3-nerved.
Corollas purple to dark-mauve, exserted, narrowly infundibuliform, regularly 5-lobed; lobe apices acicular-setose, limb and tube somewhat glandular otherwise glabrous.
Vegetative indumentum of flagelliform hairs with an elongate terminal cell on a few to many-celled uniseriate stalk.
Stems erect, simple to much-branched, becoming stout and woody at the base, strongly striately ribbed, pilose.
Leaves alternate, sessile, or sometimes petiolate, subentire to serrate or ± deeply serrate-lobed.
Capitula homogamous and discoid, laxly corymbiformly cymose, stalked.
Anther apices appendiculate, bases subacute.
Style branches subulate, hirsute.
Annual or perennial herbs.
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