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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Erigeron bilbaoanus (J.Rémy) Cabrera
Description
Erect annual to biennial herb, up to 1.5 m tall. Stems ridged, sparsely hispid, becoming almost glabrous below. Cauline lvs elliptic to narrow-oblanceolate or linear, flat, apetiolate and cuneate, acute, entire, remotely serrate, or shallowly 1-pinnatifid, usually almost glabrous except for short cilia, sometimes sparsely to moderately scaberulous, 40–80–(120) × 3–10–(20) mm; uppermost lvs smaller, often ± linear. Infl. a long, leafy pyramidal panicle with dominant main axis. Capitula 1.5–2.5 mm diam.; receptacle with raised flanges between pits. Inner involucral bracts narrow-triangular, green, later tinged purple, glabrous, 3.2–4 mm long; outer bracts glabrous or with few hairs or ciliate. Outer florets filiform or with inconspicuous ligules < 0.5 mm long, cream, later tinged purple. Achenes obovoid-cylindric, sparsely hairy, 1.2–1.4 mm long; pappus hairs cream.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4. as Conyza bilbaoana J.Rémy]
Biostatus
Exotic
Phenology
Flowering: Sep.–May–(Aug.)
Bibliography
Nesom, G.L. 2018: Erigeron floribundus and E. sumatrensis (Asteraceae) in the USA and Mexico. Phytoneuron 2018-27: 1–19.
Shi Zhu; Chen Yilin; Chen Yousheng; Lin Yourun; Liu Shangwu; Ge Xuejun; Gao Tiangang; Zhu Shixin; Liu Ying; Yang Qiner; Humphries, C.J.; von Raab-Straube, E.; Gilbert, M.G.; Nordenstam, B.; Kilian, N.; Brouillet, L.; Illarionova, I.D.; Hind, D.J.N.; Jeffrey, C.; Bayer, R.J.; Kirschner, J.; Greuter, W.; Anderberg, A.A.; Semple, J.C.; Štěpánek, J.; Freire, S.E.; Martins, L.; Koyama, H.; Kawahara, T.; Vincent, L.; Sukhorukov, A.P.; Mavrodiev, E.V.; Gottschlich, G. 2011: Asteraceae. Wu, C.Y.; Raven, P.H.; Hong, D.Y. (ed.) Flora of China. Vol. 20-21. Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
