Leontopodium monocephalum Edgew.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Leontopodium

Characteristics

Plants stoloniferous, forming mats, 4-10 cm; stolons slender, with scattered recurved scales or small nonsheathing leaves, ± prostrate, terminated by a loose rosette of leaves. Leaves spatulate to oblong-oblanceolate, 7-18 × 2-3.3 mm, yellowish, rarely grayish, tomentose, base dilated, apex obtuse, rarely brown apiculate. Flowering stems 0.5-6 cm. Capitula 1-10, dioecious (in our specimens), central one 5-7 mm wide; bracteal leaves oblanceolate or spatulate, to 14 × 3(-4) mm, grayish yellow to brown villous (or sericeous) adaxially, sometimes with concealed apiculum. Phyllaries oblanceolate, rarely ovate-oblanceolate, 4-6.2 × 1-2 mm, with blackish, scarious, deeply lacerate margin. Corollas 3.3-4.2 mm. Achenes pubescent; male ovary sparsely pubescent.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.04 - 0.1
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Leontopodium monocephalum world distribution map, present in China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:229593-1
WFO ID wfo-0000010435
COL ID 3T745
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Leontopodium fimbrilligerum Leontopodium fimbrilliferum Leontopodium evax var. evax Leontopodium evax var. fimbrilliferum Leontopodium monocephalum