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Baccharis trinervis

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

(Lamarck) Persoon

Common Names

• Zbin-kor-gá (Térraba)
• Chilca
• Marucha
• Barzalito
• Barzalito de monte
• Chaparral de bestia
• Chilquita
• Chilopo
• Gavilana
• Machucha
• Mandaguasca
• Varejón

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Distrito Federal
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerais
• Paraiba
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• secondary vegetation
• disturbed areas
• dry forest remnants
• cloud forest
• thickets
• hedges
• coastal

Flowering Times

• All year

Fruiting Times

• All year

Scandent or procumbent shrub, tree or herb with glabrous angular branches or nearly so. Leaves to 95mm x 38mm. Axillary panicles of dirty white flower heads, white flowers to 4mm, male flowerheads with 10-30 flowers, corolla to 3.3mm long, female flowers to 63 per head, corolla 2.5mm long. Achenes 1.54mm x 0.3mm, pappus to 4mm long.

Medicinal, Bee food

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• Standley