Ligularia macrophylla (Ledeb.) Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Ligularia

Characteristics

Plants grayish green. Stem erect, 35-110(-180) cm tall, 8-15 mm in diam. at base, proximally glabrous, distally and synflorescence shortly pilose. Basal leaves petiolate; petiole often purplish red, 5-20 cm, glabrous, narrowly winged, base sheathed; leaf blade ovate-oblong or oblong, 6-16(-45) × 4.5-9(-28) cm, glabrous, pinnately veined, base cuneate, narrowed into a petiole, margin undulately denticulate, apex obtuse. Stem leaves sessile, erect, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, to 12 × 5 cm, tubular-amplexicaul or semiamplexicaul at base. Synflorescence paniculate, 5-40 cm, proximally branched; leaflike and supplementary bracts linear-subulate, 3-8 mm; peduncles 1-3 mm, slender. Capitula numerous. Involucre narrowly turbinate or cylindric, 3.5-5(-6) × 2-3(-5) mm or mouth to 6 mm in diam., outside glabrous or white puberulent; phyllaries 4 or 5, in 2 rows, obovate or oblong, 1.5-3 mm wide, apex obtuse or rounded; inner phyllaries membranous at margin. Ray florets 1-3, yellow; lamina oblong, 6-8 × 2-3 mm, apex rounded; tube ca. 4 mm. Tubular florets 2-7, extending from involucre, 5-7 mm; tube 2-2.5 mm. Achenes yellowish, cylindric, 3-6 mm. Pappus white, as long as tubular corolla. Fl. and fr. Jun-Aug. 2n = 58.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.0 - 1.5
Mature height (meter) 1.0 - 1.5
Root system adventitious-root fibrous-root rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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AprMayJun
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 5-9
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 1-4
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 4-8

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 42
Germination temperacture (C°) 16 - 19
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -35
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Ligularia macrophylla world distribution map, present in China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:230793-1
WFO ID wfo-0000080191
COL ID 7296X
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Ligularia ledebourii Senecillis macrophylla Senecio ledebourii Cineraria macrophylla Ligularia macrophylla