Jungia ferruginea L.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Jungia

Characteristics

to lanceolate, acute, entire bracts with strigose trichomes on the outer face, the outer series reduced, the inner series alike, few, surrounding the outermost florets; receptacle with a tuft of hairs in the center; florets few, 6-8 per head, white, all perfect, the corollas bilabiate, the outer lip 3-dentate and the inner lip of 2 small recurved equal segments, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Achenes fusiform, beakless, glabrous and slightly striate; pappus white, a single series of soft, setose, almost plumose bristles.
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Vine reaching 30 m in length while climbing among trees; stems with dense brown strigose trichomes. Leaves alternate, 3.7-11.4 cm wide, 6.0-13.0 cm long, palmately lobed, usually with 5-7 lobes, both sides with dense, dark strigose trichomes; petiole to 5 cm long. Inflorescence of numerous heads in axillary panicles. Heads discoid, campanulate, to 5 mm tall; involucre of 2 series of ovate
Life form perennial
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Growth support climber
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Jungia ferruginea world distribution map, present in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, El Salvador, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:226788-1
WFO ID wfo-0000019337
COL ID 6NH3Z
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Synonyms

Jungia trianae Jungia guatemalensis Jungia ferruginea Jungia colombiana Jungia reticulata Jungia bogotensis Trinacte ferruginea