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Lepidaploa sericea

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

(Richard) H. Robinson

Common Names

• Tapa-camino

Geographical Habitats

• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Cuba
• Hispaniola
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands - USA

Natural Habitats

• Moist shady areas
• forest remnants
• montane forest
• forest
• forest edges

Flowering Times

• All year

Fruiting Times

• All year

Sometimes scandent herbaceous shrub or subshrub with puberulent glabrate ribbed stems, pubescent leaves to 100mm x 25mm pilose to hispid above & sericeous beneath, axillary cymes with bracteal leaves, white or purple flowers to 12mm long, hirsute ribbed achenes to 2mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• JAA
• SAFIO