Plazia daphnoides Wedd.

Chile Central

Shrubs to 2 m, resinous. Leaves sessile; blades oblanceolate to lanceolate, 10–18(–20) mm long, (2–)3–4 mm wide, apically acute, basally cuneate, glandular-pubescent, the margins ciliate. Capitula with cylindrical involucres (15–)18–20 mm high, 7–8(–14) mm wide; phyllaries 3–6-seriate, lanceolate, the inner 20–21 mm long, 2.4–3 mm wide, the outer smaller; ray florets (5–)7–8(–10), the corollas 20–21 mm long, the tube 11–11.5 mm long, the outer lip 9–9.5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, tridentate, the inner lip bipartite, 6–7 mm long; disc florets (7–)10–11(–12), the corollas white, 13–14 mm long, the tube 10–11 mm long, the lobes 7–8 mm long; anthers 5–6 mm long. Achenes [ray] 4.5–5 mm long, 1.2–1.4 mm wide, glandular; pappus c. 13 mm long; [disc] 5–5.5 mm long, 1 mm wide, glandular; pappus c. 12.5 mm long.

In Plazia, Plazia daphnoides displays the widest distribution with collections from the Andean Cordillera of southern Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina (3000–4000 m). While locally it may come while locally may come under stress from habitat reduction, it would be considered as of “least concern” (IUCN 2001).

Plazia daphnoides là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được Wedd. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1855.