Acilepis saligna
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Ordo: Asterales
Familia: Asteraceae
Genus: Acilepis
Name
Acilepis saligna (DC.) H.Rob., Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 112(1): 226. 1999. – Wikispecies link – IPNI link – Pensoft Profile
- Conyza saligna Wall., Numer. List [Wallich] no. 3061, comp. no. 171, nom. nud.
- Vernonia saligna DC., Prodr. 5: 33. 1836.
Type
India Orient, Silhet, Wallich 3061 (isotype: E!, isotype: G!, holotype: K!). Fig. 5G.
Description
Perennial herbs, 2–2.5 m tall. Stems erect, conspicuously ribbed, sericeous. Leaves 10–15 by 3–6 cm, lanceolate or elliptic, margin serrate, apex acuminate, base cuneate, subcoriaceous; both surfaces scabrous with whip-shaped hairs and capitate glands; lateral veins 6–10-paired; petioles up to 6 mm long. Capitulescences terminal or axillary, paniculate. Capitula campanulate, 6–7 mm long, pedunculate. Receptacle flat, 2–2.5 mm in diam., hairy. Involucres in 5–6 series, 6–7 mm long, 3.5–4.5 mm in diam., herbaceous, campanulate. Phyllaries light green or purple apically, margin piliferous, outer surface arachnoid, glands capitate; the outer and the middle ones ovate, apex acuminate or cuspidate; the inner ones ovate-lanceolate to oblong, apex rounded or apiculate. Florets 10–15; corollas funnelform, purple, puberulous glandular; corolla tubes 6–7 mm long; corolla lobes 2–3 mm long. Anthers purple, 2.5–3 mm long, apical appendage acute, base obtuse. Styles purple, 5–7 mm long, branches 1.5–2 mm long. Achenes subterete, 3–3.5 mm long, 10-ribbed, pubescent with twin hairs and capitate glands. Pappus bristles, the inner ones 6–7 mm long.
Distribution
Thailand: Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai. China (Yunnan), India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam.
Specimens examined
Thailand, Mae Hong Son, Pang Ma Pha, 19°26.77'N, 98°19.15'E, 8 Dec 2007, S. Bunwong 357 (KKU, US); Chiang Mai, Doi Chiangdao, 5 Dec 1965, E. Hennipman 3220 (BKF, P).
Diagnostic characters
Acilepis saligna differs from Acilepis kingii by its sessile leaves and smaller capitula in a dense panicle.
Ecology
Pine-oak forest, alt. 1100–1400 m; flowering November to December.
Vernacular name
Pai Lin (ไพลิน).
Taxon Treatment
- Bunwong, S; Chantaranothai, P; Keeley, S; 2014: Revisions and key to the Vernonieae (Compositae) of Thailand PhytoKeys, 37: 25-101. doi
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