Pulicarioidea Bunwong, Chantar. & S.C.Keeley, 2014

Bunwong, Sukhonthip, Chantaranothai, Pranom & Keeley, Sterling C., 2014, Revisions and key to the Vernonieae (Compositae) of Thailand, PhytoKeys 37, pp. 25-101 : 87

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.37.6499

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scientific name

Pulicarioidea Bunwong, Chantar. & S.C.Keeley
status

gen. nov.

Pulicarioidea Bunwong, Chantar. & S.C.Keeley gen. nov.

Type.

Pulicaria annamica Gagnep., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 68: 121. 1921.

Description.

Perennial herbs. Stems erect, conspicuously ribbed, villose. Leaves oblong or oblanceolate, margin subentire, apex acute or truncate, base cuneate, subcoriaceous; petioles sessile. Capitulescences terminal, solitary or few. Capitula hemispherical, pedunculate. Receptacle glabrous. Involucres hemispherical, phyllaries imbricate, green with purple apically. Florets ca. 70; corollas narrowly funnelform, purple, pubescent with hairs and glands. Anthers with apical appendage acute, base acute. Styles purple. Achenes subterete or oblong, 3-5 ribbed, pubescent with dense twin hairs without glands, carpopodium present. Pappus in 2 series of bristles, persistent, the outer ones are shorter than the inner ones. Pollen lophate, without micropuncta.