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Pentacalia phorodendroides

Botanic Family
Asteraceae
Author
(L.O. Williams) H. Robinson & Cuatrecasas

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Large woody epiphytic liana or tree, mostly glabrous with striate stems. Fleshy leaves to 80mm x 30mm. Terminal or lateral few to many-flowered panicles 60mm x 30mm with bracts to 1mm long, greenish-yellow flowers, flower head to 8mm long with 10-20 florets, 2-3 pale ray flowers with tube 5mm long & limb 2mm long, 8-10 disc flowers, corolla tube 3mm long with lobes to 2mm x 0.7mm. Glabrous achenes to 2mm long with pappus 5mm long.

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