Tarlmounia H.Rob., S.C.Keeley, Skvarla & R.Chan, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 121(1): 31. 2008.
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Tarlmounia H.Rob., S.C.Keeley, Skvarla & R.Chan, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 121(1): 31. 2008. |
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Tarlmounia H.Rob., S.C.Keeley, Skvarla & R.Chan, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 121(1): 31. 2008.
Type.
Vernonia elliptica DC. in Wight, Contrib. Bot. Ind. 5. 1834.
Description.
Perennial plants. Stems scandent, young branches terete, white, sericeous. Leaves simple, alternate, petiolate, sericeous with horn-shaped hairs, lamina elliptic, margin entire or serrate, apex acute rounded, base rounded, subcoriaceous. Capitulescences terminal or axillary. Capitula discoid, homogamous, pedunculate, florets bisexual and fertile. Involucres imbricate, in 3-4 series, 3-4 mm long, glandular without hairs. Corollas purple to white, actinomorphic, corolla lobes 5. Anthers 5, syngenesious. Styles 2-branched, inner surface covered with stigmatic papillae, outer surface covered with sweeping hairs on the outer surface reaching below style bifurcation. Achenes turbinate, 4-7-ribbed, ca. 2 mm long, glandular without hair, carpopodium present. Pappus in 2 series of bristles, persistent, the outer ones are shorter than the inner ones. Pollen echinate, 3-colporate, with micropuncta.
One species is recognized in Thailand.
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