Haploësthes |
Haploësthes greggii |
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Habit | Perennials or subshrubs, 10–80 cm (± succulent). | |
Stems | erect to sprawling, branched from bases or throughout. |
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Leaves | cauline; opposite; sessile; blades filiform to linear, margins entire, faces glabrous or glabrescent. |
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Involucres | obconic, 2.5–5+ mm diam. |
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Receptacles | convex, epaleate. |
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Ray florets | 3–6, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow. |
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Disc florets | 18–30(–60)[–100+], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than or equaling cylindric or funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate to lance-deltate. |
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Phyllaries | persistent, 4–5 in 1 series (lance-elliptic to ovate or orbiculate, membranous to subscarious). |
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Heads | radiate, (5–25) in corymbiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | ± cylindric (10–15-ribbed); pappi persistent, of 20–25+ barbellulate bristles. |
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x | = 18. |
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Haploësthes |
Haploësthes greggii |
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Distribution | sw United States; Mexico |
CO; KS; NM; OK; TX; Mexico |
Discussion | Species 3 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 245. | FNA vol. 21, p. 246. |
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Name authority | Haploësthes A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 109. (1849) | A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 109. (1849) |
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