Fleischmannia sinclairii (benth. ex Oerst.) R.m.king & H.Rob.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Fleischmannia

Characteristics

surface sparsely puberulous and glandular punctate, the veins prominently trinervate from base; petioles slender, to 2.0 cm long. Inflorescence a lax panicle with loosely cymose branches, the ultimate branches to 12 mm long, slender, puberulous. Heads ca. 4 mm high with ca. 25 florets; involucral bracts ca. 25, subimbricate, unequal, in 2-3 series, mostly bicostate, narrowly acute with narrow scarious margins, the outer bracts with long attenuate tips; corolla usually lavender, ca. 2 mm long, with short hairs on lobes; style branches usually slender. Achenes narrowly oblong with nearly equal constrictions above and below, black when mature, ribs black, scabrid above and on the ribs; pappus of ca. 25 slender scarcely contiguous bristles. Chromosome number n= 10.
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Erect annual herb to 1 m tall, sparsely branched; stems yellowish-green to brown, terete, finely striate, minutely puberulous. Leaves and many bracts of inflorescence opposite; blades of leaves papyraceous, rhombic, to 5 cm long, basal leaves to 3 cm wide, the margins crenulate above widest part, the apex broadly acute to slightly acuminate, the upper surface with coarse hairs, the lower
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Fleischmannia sinclairii world distribution map, present in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:105136-2
WFO ID wfo-0000028863
COL ID 6J968
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Synonyms

Fleischmannia sinclairii Eupatorium sinclairii Eupatorium sinclairii