Rolandra fruticosa Kuntze

Yerba de plata (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Rolandra

Characteristics

Decumbent perennial herbs or subshrubs to 150 cm long, sparingly branched; stems solid, to 7 mm in diameter, brown, white-sericeous. Leaves distributed along the stem, lanceolate-elliptic, basally rounded-obtuse, apically somewhat acuminate, sparsely serrulate, 4-11 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, ? scarious, muricate-scabridulous above and sparsely sericeous when young, beneath conspicuously white-tomentose, secondary veins 9-12 pairs, prominent beneath, sunken above; petioles 5-15 mm long. Inflorescences dense glomerules, upper-axillary and terminal; glomerules 300-400-headed, essentially ebracteate, globose, 10-15 mm in diameter. Heads-with 1 floret; involucral bracts mostly 2, alternate, lanceolate, boat-shaped, laterally compressed and somewhat keeled, coriaceous, more or less resin-dotted abaxially towards the apex and apically ciliolate, glabrescent, the outermost 5.0-6.5 mm long, with a sharp acumen ca. 1 mm long, the innermost
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largely enclosed by the outer bract, ca. 4 mm long, a third, elongate, ca. 2 mm long, vestigial involucral bract sometimes present below the major ones; corolla white, the tube slender, 1.7 mm long, the limb 1.8 mm long, 4-parted, the lobes lanceolate, equal, 1.5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide at the base; anthers 1.0 mm long, basally sagittate, the lobes 0.08 mm long; style branches 0.2 mm long, flattened adaxially, strigulose abaxially. Achenes obovoid, slightly flattened, smooth, obscurely 5-nerved, 1.5 mm long, 0.8 mm across at the widest point, vitreous-yellow to-brown, resin-dotted throughout; pappus in 1 series, a continuous crown of many persistent somewhat lacerate, united hyaline scales 0.15-0.30 mm long.
Life form perennial
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Therapeutic use Amenorrhea (unspecified), Depurative (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Sprain (unspecified)
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Distribution

Rolandra fruticosa world distribution map, present in Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Barbados, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Grenada, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Martinique, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:221674-2
WFO ID wfo-0000013942
COL ID 6WX82
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 630563
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Synonyms

Rolandra monacantha Rolandra diacantha Rolandra fruticosa Rolandra argentea Echinops fruticosus Echinops nodiflorus