Pluchea mesotes A.R.Bean

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Pluchea

Characteristics

Shrub to 1 m high, bisexual. Stems terete. Leaves sessile, narrowly elliptic to spathulate, 24–55 mm long, 4–16 mm wide, 3.4–6.2 times longer than broad, entire or occasionally with 1–3 pairs of teeth, acute, not resinous; both surfaces with sparse non-glandular hairs. Capitula narrowly campanulate, 5.5–7 mm long, not clustered; peduncles 0–7 mm long; outer involucral bracts glabrous, with ciliate margins; inner bracts linear, 4.8–5.2 mm long, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, glabrous on outer surface, with upper margins ciliate. Disc florets 2–5; corolla tube cylindrical, 4.0–4.3 mm long, white to pale yellow; lobes 5, 0.4–0.7 mm long, glandular. Fertile achenes produced only by marginal florets, narrowly ellipsoid, 0.9–1.0 mm long. Pappus bristles of marginal florets 12–15, 3.8–4.1 mm long.
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Grows on coastal dunes and in gravelly soil adjacent to the mangrove zone.
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Distribution

Pluchea mesotes world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77135357-1
WFO ID wfo-0001337851
COL ID 4KHZ9
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Synonyms

Pluchea mesotes