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Tarlmounia elliptica
(DC.) H.Rob., S.C.Keeley, Skvarla & R.Chan, Asteraceae
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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Risk assessment results:  Evaluate, score: 6 (Go to the risk assessment).

Other Latin names:  Vernonia elliptica DC.

Common name(s): [more details]

Chinese: guang yao teng

Habit:  herb

Description:  "Plants scandent, with slender stems, pith solid; stems, undersides of leaves, and peduncles densely silvery sericeous with long-armed T-shaped hairs. Leaves alternate, short-petiolate; blade oblong to obovate, base obtuse, margins entire to remotely denticulate, apex rounded to apiculate, upper surface green, nearly glabrous, with few scattered hairs, undersurfaces densely sericeous with slender, appressed T-shaped hairs, secondary veins pinnate, 4-6, irregularly arching toward tip. Inflorescences terminal on branches, narrowly pyramidal with usually short, lateral corymbiform branches and branchlets, mature branches usually deflected at nodes; heads in small rather dense clusters; involucral bracts imbricated in ca. 5 series, broadly obtuse to rounded at tip, inner bracts tardily deciduous; receptacle glabrous. Florets ca. 5; corollas white or pale purple in bud and becoming white, ca. 6 mm long, texture of corolla wall thin, funnelform from ca. 1.5 mm above base, without hairs, with scattered glands; anther thecae tailed with minimal basal fringe, apical appendage narrowly oblong; style base broadened with annulus of sclerified cells; upper shaft and branches of style with blunt sweeping hairs. Achenes 5-sided, rarely with extra angle, without hairs, with glandular dots, with numerous idioblasts on surface, with scattered small rhombic or short oblong raphids in wall; carpopodium narrowly stopper-shaped, nearly cylindrical, longer than wide; pappus of numerous slender bristles, narrow near base, broadened distally, somewhat fragile, with few short bristles interspersed"  (Robinson & Skvarla, 2010; p. 270).

Also description (as Vernonia elliptica) in the Digital Flora of Taiwan and the Flora of China online.

Habitat/ecology:  (no habitat/ecology info known by PIER)

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  "India and southeast Asia"  (Digital Flora of Taiwan).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. &
Island group
Location Cited status &
Cited as invasive &
Cited as cultivated &
Cited as aboriginal introduction?
Reference &
Comments
State of Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
Maui Island   Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.) (1998) (voucher ID: BISH 661862)
Taxon name on voucher: Vernonia elliptica DC.
State of Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
O‘ahu Island   Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.) (year unknown) (voucher ID: BISH 453867)
Taxon name on voucher: Vernonia elliptica DC.
Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. &
Island group
Location Cited status &
Cited as invasive &
Cited as cultivated &
Cited as aboriginal introduction?
Reference &
Comments
China
China
China (People's Republic of) introduced
invasive
cultivated
Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong (2013)
Occasionally cultivated, locally escaped and naturalized.
China
China
Hong Kong introduced
cultivated
Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong (2013)
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia (country of) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Singapore
Singapore
Singapore (Republic of) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Taiwan
Taiwan Island
Taiwan Island introduced
invasive
cultivated
Ching-I Peng, ed. (2013)
"Occasionally cultivated, locally escaped and naturalized in the south".
Thailand
Thailand
Thailand (Kingdom of) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam (Socialist Republic of) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)

Control:  If you know of control methods for Tarlmounia elliptica, please let us know.


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This page was created on 25 OCT 2010 and was last updated on 16 MAR 2012.