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(Last Modified On 6/13/2013)
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(Last Modified On 6/13/2013)
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Species
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Helichrysum bracteatum (Vent.) Andrews
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Rep. Sup. 1, tab. 428. 1805
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Synonym
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Xeranthemum bracteatum Vent., Jard. Malm. tab. 2. 1803. TYPE: not seen.
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Description
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Ephemeral herb to 1 m tall, glabrate or puberulent with short glandular hairs and sparse, arachnoid hairs; stems green, drying striate. Leaves alternate, sparsely pubescent with arachnoid hairs, entire, to 12 cm long, oblanceolate, the margin undulate, narrowed in the lower portion into a petiolelike region; petiole indistinct. Inflorescence of solitary heads terminating the uppermost branches; several linear, leaflike bracts present under the heads. Heads showy, falsely radiate; involucral bracts many in several nearly equal series, the outermost obtuse, the innermost shorter and acute, paleaceous, persistent, 10-15 mm long, variously orange, yellow, purple, or white, the innermost usually lighter colored; receptacle flat, 15-25 mm across; ray florets few or wanting; disc florets 10 mm long, corolla tubular, sharply expanded basally at the nectary, broadened about 2/3 up, apically 5-lobed, the anthers 3 mm long, with separate, setose tails, the appendages acute, slightly more than twice as long as broad, the style branches apically deltoid, the upper half of the branch slightly expanded laterally, com- pressed dorsiventrally, papillose-glandular near the apex, the nectary prominent, indistinctly lobed, elevated above the top of the ovary by an obconical process. Achene plump, fusiform-reniform, dark colored, indistinctly nerved or striate, ca. 3 mm long; carpopodium indistinct, oblique, a persistent apical flange subtending the pappus; pappus of yellow or white strigose bristles in one series about as long as the corollas.
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Habit
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herb
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Note
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Cultivated in the Chiriquf region as an ornamental for sale as cut flowers in markets.
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Common
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Everlasting Inmortal
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Purchased in market, David, said to be grown at VolcAn, D'Arcy & D'Arcy 6285 (MO).
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