Ligularia

Cassini

Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1816: 198. 1816.

Common names: Ligularia
Etymology: Latin, ligula, little tongue, and -aria, pertaining to or possession of alluding to corollas of radiate heads
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 613. Mentioned on page 540, 542.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA20 P65 Doronicum pardalianches.jpegDoronicum pardalianches
Ligularia dentata
Barkleyanthus salicifolius
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Perennials, 15–150+ cm (glabrous or scattered-hairy, especially distally [arachno-tomentose]; roots fibrous). Stems usually 1, erect. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate (petiole bases dilated, ± sheathing stems); blades (basal and proximal largest, cauline smaller distally) palmately [palmati-pinnately] nerved, orbiculate to reniform [elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate], margins dentate [denticulate, serrate, dissected], faces glabrous or sparsely pilosulous (mostly on nerves) [glaucous; arachno-tomentose]. Heads radiate [discoid], in corymbiform [racemiform or spiciform] arrays. Calyculi 0 [1–2+ bractlets]. Involucres cylindric to campanulate, [3–] 16–28 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, [5–] 8–13+ in 1–2 series, erect, distinct (margins interlocking) [connate at bases], mostly oblong or lanceolate to linear, subequal, margins usually ± scarious (tips greenish or reddish, not blackened). Receptacles flat to convex, smooth, epaleate. Ray-florets [0 or 1–7] 8–14+, pistillate, fertile; corollas (laminae prominent, showy) orange to orange-yellow or brick-red [yellow]. Disc-florets [5–] 12–100+, bisexual, fertile; corollas orange-yellow to orange, becoming brownish [yellow], tubes longer than cylindric throats, lobes 5, recurved, lance-linear; style-branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices truncate or rounded-truncate. Cypselae (stramineous to brownish) ± ellipsoid [cylindric or fusiform], 5 [–10] -ribbed or nerved, glabrous; pappi persistent (fragile), of 40–100+, reddish [sordid, brownish, purplish], barbellate to barbellulate bristles ([shorter than] longer than cypselae). x = 30.

Distribution

Introduced; temperate Eurasia

Discussion

Species 125+ (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

... more about "Ligularia"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
papillate +
rounded-truncate;truncate +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lance-linear +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Theodore M. Barkley† +
Cassini +
decurrent +
orbiculate;reniform +
winged;nerved;ribbed +
barbellate +  and barbellulate +
Ligularia +
brownish +, orange-yellow +  and orange +
nerved +  and 5[-10]-ribbed +
ellipsoid +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
temperate Eurasia +
Latin, ligula, little tongue, and -aria, pertaining to or possession of +  and alluding to corollas of radiate heads +
pilosulous +  and glabrous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br /> (2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br />) +
cylindric;campanulate +
cauline +  and basal +
lanceolate +  and lance-linear +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
lanceolate +  and linear +
Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
flat;convex +
exalbuminous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Compositae +
Ligularia +
Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae +
cylindric +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (150 cm1,500 mm <br />1.5 m <br />) +
vine +, tree +, shrub +  and subshrub +