Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Eupatoriadelphus R.M.King & H.Rob.

EUPATORIADELPHUS R. King et H. Robinson

Perennial herbs. Lvs verticillate, petiolate, simple, serrate or crenate. Infl. a ± dense corymb. Involucral bracts in several rows, unequal, mostly chartaceous. Receptacle convex; scales 0. Corolla tubular. Style base swollen. Achenes ellipsoid-cylindric to obpyramidal, 5-angled, glandular; pappus of persistent scabrid hairs, with subobtuse to acute apical cells.

4 spp., E. North America. Naturalised sp. 1.

Eupatoriadelphus is one of the genera recently segregated from Eupatorium [King, R. M. and Robinson, H., Phytologia 14 : 431-432 (1970)].

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