Marasmodes defoliata S.Ortiz

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Marasmodes

Characteristics

Weak, single or few-stemmed, sparsely leafy shrublets, 0.2-0.4 m tall. Leaves alternate, some rarely subopposite, restricted to upper branches or branch tips, caducous, suberect, linear to oblanceolate, 8-20 x 0.5-3.0 mm, simple or sometimes apically 2-or 3-fid, mucronulate, secondary basal lobes absent; axillary fascicles absent. Capitula solitary, terminal or on axillary shoots 5-20 mm long. Involucre broadly campanulate, 6-10 x 5-7 mm; bract margins and apices scarious, sessile glands at appendage base inconspicuous, stereome not prominent; outer bracts broadly ovate, 1.5-2.0 mm long, margin and apex not scarious; middle bracts ovate to narrowly ovate, 2-3 mm long, margin and apex at most only slightly scarious, obtuse; inner bracts oblong, 3-4 mm long, margins narrowly scarious, apex with a prominent scarious appendage, ovate to broadly ovate, reddish-pink. Florets ca. 20 to 30; limb 5-lobed from just above midpoint; lobes erect to recurved. Pappus with adaxial scales to ± half corolla tube length.
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Straggling shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves lax, linear or rarely 3-lobed, suberect-spreading, deciduous, 9-23 mm long. Flower heads discoid, broadly campanulate, solitary, yellowish, 5-7 mm long, bracts erect with purple tips, florets ± 20 per head.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Marasmodes defoliata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60451052-2
WFO ID wfo-0001329014
COL ID 3Y297
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Synonyms

Marasmodes defoliata