Ligularia biceps Kitag.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Ligularia

Characteristics

Plants grayish green. Stem erect, to 50 cm tall, glabrous. Basal leaves petiolate; petiole to 25 cm, glabrous, middle to distal petioles broadly winged; leaf blade ovate to orbicular, to 28 × 23 cm, glabrous, pinnately veined, with conspicuous reticulate veins, base cordate, margin undulately dentate or entire, apex rounded. Middle to distal stem leaves lax, similar but smaller, sessile. Distalmost stem leaves bracteal. Capitula 1-9, often in corymb. Involucre blackish gray, campanulate, or cupular in fruit, 1-1.2 cm, outside glabrous; phyllaries spreading, leathery, below middle united, distally 3-5-lobed; lobes ovate or triangular, apex rounded, mucronate. Ray florets 6-13, yellow; lamina broadly elliptic, to 3 × 1.1 cm, apex entire or denticulate. Tubular ca. 1 cm; tube ca. 3 mm. Achenes brown, 6-10 mm. Pappus absent. Fl. and fr. Jul.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Flower color
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Fruiting months
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 1-4
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

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Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 14 - 42
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 18
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Distribution

Ligularia biceps world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:230704-1
WFO ID wfo-0000043261
COL ID 6PX7T
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Ligularia biceps