Camchaya
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Ordo: Asterales
Familia: Asteraceae
Name
Camchaya Gagnep., Notul. Syst. 4: 14. 1920. – Wikispecies link – IPNI link – Pensoft Profile
Type
Camchaya kampotensis Gagnep., Notul. Syst. 4: 14. 1920.
Description
Annual herbs. Stems erect, pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, usually petiolate; lamina ovate to lanceolate, pubescent with hairs and glands, margin serrate, apex acute to acuminate, base attenuate, usually chartaceous. Capitulescences terminal or axillary, paniculate or corymbose. Capitula campanulate or hemispherical, pedunculate, homogamous; florets bisexual and fertile. Involucres campanulate or hemispherical. Phyllaries imbricate, persistent, the outer and the middle ones ovate or lanceolate, the inner ones linear-oblong, sometimes pubescent, glands capitate. Corollas purple or white, narrowly funnelform, pubescent with hairs and/or capitate glands; corolla lobes 5. Anthers apical appendage acute, base rounded. Styles purple, 2-branched, slender, acute, inner surface covered with stigmatic papillae, outer surface and shaft covered with sweeping hairs reaching to below style bifurcation. Achenes obovate, usually 10-ribbed, carpopodium absent. Pappus in one series of often deciduous bristles. Pollen echinolophate, 6-porate, without micropuncta.
Seven species are recognized in Thailand.
Key to the species
Taxon Treatment
- Bunwong, S; Chantaranothai, P; Keeley, S; 2014: Revisions and key to the Vernonieae (Compositae) of Thailand PhytoKeys, 37: 25-101. doi