Ligularia eriocaulis M.Zhang & L.S.Xu

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Ligularia

Characteristics

Plants grayish green. Stem erect, 30-55 cm tall, 4-6 mm in diam. at base, proximally glabrescent, distally and synflorescence densely white arachnoid-puberulent and shortly yellowish brown pilose. Basal leaves petiolate; petiole 2-16 cm, glabrous or sparsely arachnoid-puberulent, base sheathed, entirely winged at middle to distally; leaf blade ovate-oblong or oblanceolate, 8-28 × 3-6 cm, sparsely white puberulent and shortly yellowish brown pilose on both surfaces or adaxially more densely so, pinnate-parallel veined, base cuneate, margin denticulate, apex acute. Stem leaves 1-3, sessile, tubular, 2.5-7 cm, margin entire or irregularly denticulate. Synflorescence racemose, 5-15 cm, lax; leaflike bracts linear-lanceolate to linear, proximal ones to 3.5 cm, densely arachnoid-puberulent, smaller distally. Capitula 2-10; supplementary bracts linear to subulate, shorter than involucre, arachnoid-puberulent. Involucre broadly campanulate, 8-13 mm, mouth 7-16 mm in diam., outside white puberulent or shortly yellowish brown pilose; phyllaries 10-12, in 2 rows, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-4 mm wide, margin membranous and sparsely white ciliate, apex acuminate, acute, or rounded. Ray florets 10 or 11, yellow; lamina oblong, 9-13 × 2-3.5 mm, apex acute or rounded; tube 1.5-2.5 mm. Tubular florets numerous, 4-5 mm; tube 1-1.5 × ca. 3 mm. Achenes oblanceolate (immature). Pappus white, as long as tubular corolla. Fl. Aug, fr. Aug-Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.55
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

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

Ligularia eriocaulis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:998679-1
WFO ID wfo-0000119976
COL ID 6Q97M
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Synonyms

Ligularia eriocaulis