Blepharipappus
blepharipappus, eyelash tarweed, rough eyelashweed
± erect (scabrous and, sometimes, hirsute, usually stipitate-glandular distally).
mostly cauline;
proximal opposite, most alternate;
sessile;
blades narrowly spatulate to linear, margins entire, faces scabrous, hirsute, strigose, sericeous, or villous (distal leaves usually stipitate-glandular as well).
turbinate to campanulate or hemispheric, 3–6+ mm diam.
convex, glabrous, paleate (paleae falling, subtending all or most disc florets, outer herbaceous, inner scarious).
(2–)3–5(–8), pistillate, fertile;
corollas whitish (nerved with purple abaxially).
6–25(–60+), bisexual, fertile;
corollas whitish, tubes shorter than or about equaling funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate (anthers ± dark purple; styles ± hairy proximal to branches, branches ca. 0.2 mm).
(2–)3–5(–8) in 1 series, ± lanceolate or oblanceolate, herbaceous, each ± 1/2 investing subtended floret proximally, abaxially ± hirsute and/or stipitate-glandular.
radiate, borne singly or in open, corymbiform arrays.
± obconic or terete (basal attachments ± central, faces ± villous, apices not beaked);
pappi 0 or of 12–18(–26) subulate fimbriate to ciliate or plumose scales.
bracts: pit-glands, tack-glands, and/or spines 0 at tips.
= 8.
Blepharipappus
Species 1.
Blepharipappus and members of Layia were once treated as congeneric; Layia appears to be more closely related to Lagophylla than to Blepharipappus, based on molecular phylogenetic data (S. Carlquist et al. 2003).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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