Leontopodium giraldii Diels

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Leontopodium

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial. Rhizome stout and branched, densely covered with black-brown relicts of leaves, forms rather caespitose of several stems and sterile leaf rosettes. Stems erect and firm, 10-28 cm tall, ash-colored arachnoid lanate. Leaves discolored on both sides, abaxially densely white arachnoid lanate, adaxially greenish glabrate; cauline leaves linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 30-90 × 3-10 mm, base narrowed, apex obtuse or acute, basal ones usually larger than upper ones; radical rosette leaves oblong-spatulate or narrowly oblong, 20-50 × 5-8 mm, narrowed in sheath. Capitula 5-9, heterogamous, in sparse corymbs, 6-8 mm in diam.; peduncles ca. 1 cm, connate with base of bracteal leaves; bracteal leaves similar to upper cauline leaves in shape, size, and indumentum, but slightly narrower, forming an irregular star of 6-8 cm in diam. Phyllaries 3-or 4-seriate, oblong, ca. 4 mm, abaxially densely white tomentose, apex purplish brown, obtuse or lacerate, glabrous. Corolla ca. 3 mm, purplish brown above. Achenes ca. 1.8 mm, glabrous. Pappus purplish brown, 2-3 mm, serrulate. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Jul-Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.28
Root system rhizome
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AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Usage

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Cultivation

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

Leontopodium giraldii world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:229599-1
WFO ID wfo-0000004736
COL ID 3T72Z
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Leontopodium giraldii