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Vittadinia A.Rich.

Genus

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae

Characteristics

Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs. Lvs alternate, simple, entire to lobed and again toothed. Capitula solitary. Involucral bracts in several rows, imbricate, the outer somewhat herbaceous, the inner partly membranous. Receptacle flat to convex; scales 0. Outer florets ♀, ligulate, in 1-several rows; ligules white or pinkish to bluish purple. Inner florets ☿, tubular, often fewer than ♀. Achenes all similar, obovate, oblanceolate, cuneate, or obconic, usually compressed, rarely terete, hairy, with or without facial ribs; pappus of scabrid hairs in 1-several rows.
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Capitula small, solitary to corymbose; receptacle alveolate; phyll. imbricate, in few series, margins scarious. Ray-florets ligulate, pistillate, ∞; disk-florets tubular, perfect. Anther-cells obtuse at base; style-arms flattened, with subulate tips. Achenes ± compressed. Pappus cop., of unequal slender hairs. Branching perennial herbs woody at base, or subshrubs. About 15 spp. of New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia, Tasmania, N.Z. and southern South America.
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Distribution

Vittadinia world distribution map, present in New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:11499-1
WFO ID wfo-4000040383
COL ID 873S
BDTFX ID 100771
INPN ID 672806
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Synonyms

Vittadinia

Lower taxons

Vittadinia hispidula Vittadinia humerata Vittadinia nullarborensis Vittadinia dissecta Vittadinia muelleri Vittadinia sulcata Vittadinia blackii Vittadinia australasicus Vittadinia cuneata Vittadinia burbidgeae Vittadinia cervicularis Vittadinia eremaea Vittadinia constricta Vittadinia australis Vittadinia condyloides Vittadinia simulans Vittadinia pterochaeta Vittadinia decora Vittadinia pustulata Vittadinia scabra Vittadinia spathulata Vittadinia australasica Vittadinia megacephala Vittadinia gracilis Vittadinia tenuissima Vittadinia australis
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