Pluchea punctata A.R.Bean

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Pluchea

Characteristics

Woody shrub to 80 cm high, bisexual. Stems terete. Leaves sessile, linear to very narrowly oblanceolate, 18–54 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, 13–23 times longer than broad, entire, acute, glabrous, resinous; both surfaces with dark punctate glands. Capitula solitary, narrowly ovoid to campanulate, 7–10 mm long; peduncles 1–10 mm long; outer involucral bracts glabrous, resinous, with stalked glandular hairs on margins; inner bracts linear, 5–6.3 mm long, 0.4–0.6 mm wide, acute, glabrous or with a few stalked glandular hairs near apex. Disc florets 8–12; corolla tube cylindrical, 5.2–6.5 mm long, pink; lobes 4, 0.6–0.7 mm long, glandular. Fertile achenes produced by all florets, narrowly ellipsoid, 0.8–1.0 mm long; pappus bristles of marginal florets 13–17, 3.7–5 mm long.
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It grows on hill slopes with Eucalyptus microneura and Triodia spp.
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Distribution

Pluchea punctata world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77117739-1
WFO ID wfo-0001332483
COL ID 4KJ22
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Synonyms

Pluchea punctata