Trixis inula Crantz

Tropical threefold (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Trixis

Characteristics

Perennial herbs 0.5-3 m tall, erect, much branched with glandular trichomes on the vegetative parts. Leaves petiolate; blades 24-70(-165) mm long, 5-22 mm wide, linear-lanceolate to elliptical, acute, attenuate or slightly truncate at the base, glabrate above with scattered glands and hairs, beneath strigose to pilose, rarely villous and sparsely glandular; petioles 1-7 mm long. Inflorescences paniculate or corymbose; peduncles sparsely glandular, strigose to pilose or glabrous, rarely sericeous. Heads hermaphrodite; involucral bracts 7-9, 8-13(-15) mm long, linear or oblong, acute, convex, sparsely glandular, sparsely strigose to strigose, rarely glabrous; receptacle fimbrillate; florets 8-15 per head, the outer florets 5-9 mm long, the corolla yellow. Achenes (4-)5(-9) mm long, beaked, covered with double hairs that are usually not mucilage-releasing, and glandular trichomes, the beak about 1/4 the length; pappus, 7-11 mm long, of setose tawny bristles. Chromosome number 2n = 54
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Plants 30–300+ cm (much branched). Leaves usually spread-ing; petioles 1–3 mm; blades linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or elliptic, 2.5–16.5 cm, bases attenuate to ± truncate, margins entire or denticulate (± flat), induments: margins and some-times abaxial midveins with glandless and glandular hairs, otherwise glabrous; stomates on abaxial faces. Heads in corymbiform or paniculiform arrays. Peduncles 1–20(–25) mm, little, if at all, inflated distally. Calyculi of 3–5 linear to lanceolate (rarely ovate) bractlets 2.5–17 mm. Phyllaries usually 8, linear to oblong, 8–13(–15) mm, apices acute. Florets (8–)10–15; corolla tubes 5–9 mm, outer lips 4–7.5 mm, inner 3.5–5.5 mm. Cypselae 4.5–9 mm, papilla-like double hairs not producing mucilage when wetted; pappi 7–11 mm. 2n = 54.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.4 - 3.0
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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 3-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Diabetes (unspecified), Intestine (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Vulnerary (unspecified), Venereal (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified)
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Cultivation

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Images

Leaf

Trixis inula leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Distribution

Trixis inula world distribution map, present in Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Trixis inula threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:256729-1
WFO ID wfo-0000021320
COL ID 5967V
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Trixis mexicana Trixis ehrenbergii Perdicium radiale Prenanthes fruticosa Trixis inula Trixis glabra Trixis adenolepis Trixis laevigata Perdicium havanense Inula trixis Trixis chiantlensis Trixis deamii Perdicium laevigatum Solidago fruticosa Trixis havanensis Trixis frutescens Trixis frutescens Dumerilia frutescens Trixis radialis Tenorea calyculata Tenorea berteroi Trixis radialis Trixis corymbosa Trixis frutescens var. frutescens Trixis radialis var. radialis Trixis frutescens var. angustifolia Trixis frutescens var. angustifolia Trixis frutescens var. obtusifolia Trixis frutescens var. glabrata Trixis frutescens var. latifolia Trixis radialis var. pubescens Trixis radialis var. pubescens Trixis radialis var. subglabra Trixis radialis var. subglabra