Plazia

GENUS

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderAsterales
5. FamilyAsteraceae

Native toArgentina Northwest, Bolivia, Chile Central, Chile North, Peru

Shrubs 1–2 m tall, the branches erect to ascending; stems lacking spines. Leaves simple, sessile, in whorls at branch tips; blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, glabrous to glandular, usually appressed, the margins entire. Capitulescences of solitary, terminal heads, sessile. Capitula heterogamous, radiate or more rarely homogamous, discoid; involucres cylindrical to campanulate; receptacles plane, glabrous; phyllaries 5–7-seriate, lanceolate; ray florets 5–25, the corollas ligulate-bilabiate, the outer lip 4-nerved, tridentate, the inner lip bifid; styles cylindric, glabrous, bifid, the branches short, inconspicuous; disc florets 7–40, the corollas tubular, actinomorphic, glabrous, the limb deeply 5-lobed, the lobes greater than 1/3 the length of the corolla, coiled; anthers linear, the terminal appendages lanceolate, fused into a column, truncate, the bases caudate; styles claviform, the branches short, rounded. Achenes glabrous or glandular-pubescent; pappus of scabrid bristles, isomorphic, yellowish. Chromosome number: unknown.

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