Ijen edelweiss (Anaphalis viscida)

Ijen edelweiss (Anaphalis viscida) is a plant species in the Asteraceae, herbaceous, everlasting, upright, has white hairs, branching, cylindrical, the stem and lower branches are bare, the twigs have gray-white leaves, drooping and grow in tropical mountains.

A. viscida has leaves sitting spirally around the stem. Leaves are narrow ribbon-shaped, green, sharp tip, flat edge, up to 11 cm long, up to 1 cm wide, smooth surface resembling velvet and powdery or white-haired.

Many compound flowers with a close arrangement. The crown is white and yellow, like cotton and is located in a panicle in the form of branching grains. Pollination is assisted by wind and insects.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Gnaphalieae
Subtribe: Gnaphaliinae
Genus: Anaphalis DC. in Prodr. 6: 271 (1838)
Species: Anaphalis viscida (Blume) DC. in Prodr. 6: 274 (1838)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Antennaria viscida (Blume) Sch.Bip. in H.Zollinger, Syst. Verz. Ind. Archip. 2: 124 (1854)
Gnaphalium viscidum Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 900 (1826)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Anaphalis sordida Boerl. in Handl. Fl. Ned. Ind. 2: 240 (1891)

PUBLICATIONS

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

VERNACULAR NAME

English: Ijen edelweiss
Indonesian: Widodaren, Edelweiss Ijen
Java: Widodaren

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