Hippolytia kennedyi (Dunn) Ling

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Hippolytia

Characteristics

Cushion plants, dense, 2-4 cm tall, with long thick roots; stems much branched, branches with dense thick leaf remnants. Leaves in dense rosettes at or near ground level; petiole 0.5-1.2 cm; leaf blade orbicular or flabelliform, 0.2-0.4 × 0.3-0.6 cm, biternately palmatisect or 2-pinnatisect, both surfaces densely dirty yellow, gray-white villous, or lanate. Synflorescence a large, dense, hemispheric glomerule, ca. 10 cm in diam. Capitula many; peduncle ca. 4 mm, densely villous. Involucres cuneate, ca. 7 mm in diam.; phyllaries in 3 rows, abaxially villous, especially in outer and middle ones, scarious margin dark brown, outer phyllaries lanceolate, ca. 4 mm, middle ones narrowly elliptic, ca. 3.5 mm, inner ones oblanceolate, ca. 3 mm. Florets yellow, ca. 3.5 mm. Achenes ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug-Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Mature height (meter) 0.02 - 0.04
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Hippolytia kennedyi world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:224905-1
WFO ID wfo-0000020249
COL ID 3M26Y
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Synonyms

Tanacetum kennedyi Chrysanthemum kennedyi Hippolytia kennedyi