Leontopodium caespitosum Diels

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Leontopodium

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial. Rhizome stout, long, usually branched, with numerous flowering stems and sterile stems. Stems woody, erect, branched or not branched, 12-25 cm, entire plant light gray arachnoid pubescent, densely arranged with leaves in upper part, densely covered with brown decayed leaves in lower part. Leaves lanceolate, 10-25 × 1.5-3 mm, abaxially densely covered with light gray tomentum, adaxially green and glabrous, lateral veins indistinct, base narrowed, apex acute. Capitula 6-10, 4-5 cm in diam.; bracteal leaves 6-10, oblong, 14-30 × 2-4.5 mm, forming a star of 3-4.5 cm in diam., both surfaces densely grayish white tomentose, apex acute. Phyllaries 2-or 3-seriate, lanceolate, ca. 4 mm, apex black-brown and obtuse, abaxially white tomentose. Corolla ca. 3 mm. Achenes oblong, ca. 1 mm, glabrous. Pappus white, ca. 3.5 mm, serrulate. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Sep-Oct.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 10 - 42
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
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Distribution

Leontopodium caespitosum world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:229576-1
WFO ID wfo-0000007091
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Synonyms

Leontopodium caespitosum