Parapolydora H. Rob., 2005

Robinson, Harold, Skvarla, John J. & Funk, Vicki A., 2016, Vernonieae (Asteraceae) of southern Africa: A generic disposition of the species and a study of their pollen, PhytoKeys 60, pp. 49-126 : 87-89

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.60.6734

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scientific name

Parapolydora H. Rob., 2005
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Parapolydora H. Rob., 2005 Figures 13 C View Figure 13 ; 20 A–C View Figure 20 ; 21 A–F View Figure 21

Parapolydora H. Rob., Phytologia 87(2): 78. 2005. - Type: Vernonia fastigiata Oliv. & Hiern.

Descriptions.

Perennial herbs 0.2-1.0 m tall; from slender prostrate or creeping stem or rhizome, erect stems with few to many ascending branches, five-ribbed, sides with numerous glandular dots, glabrous or finely and sparsely puberulous with some simple multiseptate hairs, and some one-armed L-shaped hairs with stalk near one end as in Polydora . Leaves alternate, linear to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, venation pinnate with short, ascending, secondary veins weakly prominulous below, surfaces concolorous, glandular dots more numerous below, sparsely puberulous. Inflorescences of long-pedunculate heads terminal on leafy stems and branches; involucres broadly campanulate to subglobose; involucral bracts 110-130 in ca. six series, persistent, gradate, from 2-12 mm long, bases of bracts oblong, pale, appressed, covered with dense pale tomentum, bracts distally constricted into long glabrous, often reflexed awn, darkened along costa near base of awn; receptacle epaleaceous, alveolate. Florets 45-50 in a head; corollas lavender, without hairs, basal tubes narrowly funnelform, glabrous, throats about as long as linear lobes, few glands on throat and glands clustered at lobe tips; thecae of anthers without tails at base; apical appendages ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, with thin-walled cells; style base with distinct annular node; style branches with long acicular sweeping hairs scarcely extending below base of branches. Achenes weakly 8-10-veined, with setulae becoming long and uniseriate from near middle or near base, rarely with one long cell and one short cell, idioblasts numerous from base to top of achene, raphids elon gate; pappus white or grayish, inner series of many barbellate bristles, not broadened at tips, outer series of numerous, short, linear scales. Chromosome number unknown.

Pollen ca. 50 μm in diam., sublophate, echinate (Type A), tricolporate, sub-echinolophate (Fig. 21 A–D View Figure 21 ).

Most notable secondary metabolites, sesquiterpene nerolidol derivatives ( Bohlmann and Jakupovic (1990).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Asteraceae

Loc

Parapolydora H. Rob., 2005

Robinson, Harold, Skvarla, John J. & Funk, Vicki A. 2016
2016
Loc

Vernonia fastigiata

Oliv & Hiern 1877
1877