Agnorhiza elata
Agnorhiza
Hall's mule-ears
mule-ears
erect, usually branched distally.
erect and branched (mostly distally), or decumbent (and seldom branched distally).
basal and cauline (basal usually scalelike on flowering stems, well-formed on non-flowering shoots); alternate;
petiolate;
blades (3-or 5-nerved or pinnately nerved), cordate-ovate, deltate, deltate-triangular, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or suborbiculate, bases broadly cuneate, subcordate, or truncate, margins entire or dentate to crenate, faces glabrous or hairy (often gland-dotted).
blades ovate-lanceolate to deltate, (8–)10–15(–20) cm, bases truncate to subcordate, margins entire or finely dentate or serrulate, faces tomentulose to pilosulous (and gland-dotted).
hemispheric, 25–40 mm diam.
campanulate to ± hemispheric, 12–40 mm diam.
flat to convex, paleate (paleae persistent, conduplicate, chartaceous).
10–14(–23), laminae (30–)50–60 mm.
0 or (1–)5–21+, pistillate, fertile;
corollas yellow.
50–150+, bisexual, fertile;
corollas yellow, tubes shorter than cylindric throats, lobes 5, lance-deltate (style branches stigmatic in 2, barely distinct lines, appendages filiform).
persistent, (8–)12–26+ in 2–3+ series (subequal to unequal, outer usually surpassing inner).
lanceolate, 20–30 mm (equaling or surpassing discs, tips often spreading to squarrose).
held beyond leaves.
radiate or discoid, borne singly (terminal) or in ± racemiform arrays.
8–12 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes distally strigillose;
pappi coroniform (lacerate, projected into scales on angles), (0.5–)1–2(–3) mm.
± prismatic, 3–4-angled (faces glabrous or strigillose);
pappi usually persistent, coroniform (± lacerate, sometimes with 1–4 teeth or scales), sometimes 0.
= 19.
= 38.
Agnorhiza elata
Agnorhiza
Agnorhiza elata is known only from foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
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Species 5 (5 in the flora).
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1. Plants (5–)15–30(–45+) cm; stems decumbent, seldom distally branched; cauline leaves: blades ovate, suborbiculate, elliptic, rounded-deltate, or oblong; involucres ± campanulate, 12–25(–30+) mm diam | → 2 |
1. Plants (20–)40–100 cm; stems erect, usually distally branched; cauline leaves: blades deltate, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate; involucres ± hemispheric, (15–)20–40 mm diam | → 3 |
2. Leaves glabrous (shining, finely gland-dotted, glutinous); heads held among or beyond leaves; ray florets (7–)8–12, laminae (12–)20–30(–35) mm; cypselae 7–9 mm; pappi 0 or coroniform, 0.1–0.3 mm | A. bolanderi |
2. Leaves silky-villous to strigillose, glabrescent; heads in axils of (and overtopped by) leaves; ray florets 5–8(–9), laminae 8–18 mm; cypselae 9–10 mm; pappi coroniform, 1–1.5+ mm | A. ovata |
3. Ray florets 0 or 2–3 | A. invenusta |
3. Ray florets 10–23 | → 4 |
4. Leaf blades: faces tomentulose to pilosulous (and gland-dotted); cypselae 8–12 mm; pappi (0.5–)1–2(–3) mm | A. elata |
4. Leaf blades: faces sparsely hispid or scabrous (and finely gland-dotted, green, shin-ing, often vernicose); cypselae ca. 6 mm; pappi 0.1–1 mm | A. reticulata |
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