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Lagenophora maviensis Mann. 
H. Mann in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. II, p. 172 (1867). 
L. mautensts Abd. in Flora H. I., p. 195 (1588). 
Mann’s type represents the robust form as compared with other 
Hawaiian forms and species. 
Type locality, top of the mountain of West Maui. Mann & 
Brigham, No. 440. 
Minutely viscous-pubescent herb with a thick creeping rhizome. 
Leaves radical or crowded on a short stem, coriaceous, sessile, 
cuneate to spatulate-oblanceolate, acute or rounded at the apex 
which is coarsely serrate, entire toward the base, covered with 
resinous glands and a short, evanescent, pubescence above, pale 
and glabrous below, 4.8 cm. long, 6 mm. wide (‘‘About 2 inches 
long, 4-6 lines wide,’’ Mann). Scape 18-23 cm. long, distantly 
foliose with 3-9 linear-spatulate bracts. Heads globose, large for 
the genus, 1.5 cm. in diameter. Involucral bracts linear-oblong, 
acute, membranous, pubescent, equaling the disk. Ray florets 
entire, pointed, in 3-4 series, slightly longer than the yellow disk 
florets, reddish purple. Achenes narrow-lanceolate, the beak 
glandular-hispid. 
Specimens in B. P. B. M. Herbarium. Type, Mann & Brig- 
ham, No. 440. ‘Top of mountain of W. Maui, 6,500 feet; Dr. Hille- 
brand and J. M. Lydgate, Keka (Puu Kukui, W. Maui); C. N. 
Forbes, No. 55, M., Puu Kukui, W. Maui, May 1910; Forbes, No. 
378, M., Eke, W.' Maui, October 1917; G. C. Munro, No. 622, 
open bog, Puu Kukui, W. Maui, September 1916. 
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