Ixeridium aculeolatum C.Shih

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Ixeridium

Characteristics

Herbs to 40 cm tall, perennial, rosulate, with shoot-bearing lateral roots. Stem solitary, grayish green, erect, ± branched from middle, very sparsely white echinulate. Rosette leaves oblanceolate, 3.5-5.5 × 1-1.5 cm, lyrately pinnatifid, abaxially very sparsely white echinulate on midvein, adaxially glabrous, base attenuate into a winged petiole-like portion, margin entire to sinuate; lateral lobes 2 or 3 pairs, ovate to suborbicular; terminal lobe ovate to orbicular, much larger than lateral ones. Stem leaves 2, similar to basal leaves but smaller. Synflorescence laxly paniculiform to corymbiform, with some capitula. Capitula with ca. 10 florets; peduncle wiry, ca. 1.5 cm to several cm, sparsely white echinulate. Involucre cylindric, ca. 8 mm. Outer phyllaries lanceolate, longest ca. 2 mm, apex acute; inner phyllaries abaxially very sparsely echinulate on midvein, apex acute to obtuse. Florets yellow. Achene pale brown, fusiform, ca. 4 mm, apex attenuate into a slender ca. 2 mm beak. Pappus white, ca. 6 mm. Fl. and fr. Sep.
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Distribution

Ixeridium aculeolatum world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:975626-1
WFO ID wfo-0000115078
COL ID 3QFF4
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Synonyms

Ixeridium aculeolatum