Brata (Montanoa bipinnatifida)

Brata (Montanoa bipinnatifida) is a species of plant in the Asteraceae, shrub or small tree, rarely branched, terete trunk with a soft spongy center, growing wild along forest boundaries, watercourses and disturbed land.

M. bipinnatifida has stems erect, woody, rarely branched, cylindrical in shape with signs of leaf stalks such as forming internodes, bright brown or white with black spots.

Stem has rows of leaves arranged opposite, long stalk, heart-shaped base, pointed tip, irregularly serrated, ciliated, has many lobes, dark green upper surface and pale green underside. Disc flowers have long stalks, white, cymose panicles, numerous at the terminal and branched. The green crown turns yellow.

Brata fills the vegetation of savannas, riverbanks, ditches, rainforest edges, roadsides, neglected and disturbed lands. White flowers and attractive foliage are often used for living fences and ornamental plants.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Heliantheae
Subtribe: Montanoinae
Genus: Montanoa Cerv. in P.de La Llave & J.M.de Lexarza, Nov. Veg. Descr. 2: 11 (1825)
Species: Montanoa bipinnatifida (Kunth) K.Koch in Wochenschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 7: 407 (1864)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Uhdea bipinnatifida Kunth in Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1847: 13 (1847)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Eriocoma elegans Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 336 (1891)
Eriocoma pyramidata Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 336 (1891)
Montanoa elegans K.Koch in Wochenschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 7: 408 (1864)
Montanoa heracleifolia Brongn. in Rev. Hort. (Paris) 12: 370 (1863)
Montanoa pyramidata Sch.Bip. in Wochenschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 7: 408 (1864)
Polymnia grandis Kunth in Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1847: 13 (1847)
Uhdea pyramidata (Sch.Bip.) Rollisson in Nursery Cat. (Rollisson) 1870(Cat. Seeds): 35 (1870)

PUBLICATIONS

Mao, A.A. & Dash, S.S. (2020). Flowering Plants of India an Annotated Checklist (Dicotyledons) 1: 1-970. Botanical Survey of India.

Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Sauerbier, H., Cabrera Calixto, F. & Muer, T. (2023). Flora Vascular de Canarias: 1-1514. Turquesa.

VERNACULAR NAME

Finnish: Kakkarapuu
Indonesian: Brata, Cakra
Java: Broto
Russian: Монтаноа дваждыперистая
Spanish: Acahuite

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