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Peucephyllum

Peucephyllum
Family: Asteraceae
Peucephyllum image
Shannon Henke
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John L. Strother in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Shrubs or treelets, mostly 100-300 cm. Stems (1-5+), branched. Leaves cauline; alternate; sessile; blades linear-filiform, rarely with 1-2 lateral lobes, ultimate margins entire, faces glabrous, gland-dotted. Heads discoid, borne singly. Involucres turbinate to campanulate, 6-12 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent or tardily falling, 8-18 in ± 2 series (linear to lanceolate, outer intergrading with subtending leaves). Receptacles flat, pitted or knobby, epaleate. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 12-21, bisexual, fertile; corollas creamy yellow, distally purplish (stipitate-glandular), tubes shorter than cylindric throats, lobes 5, erect, deltate (style-branch appendages rounded-truncate, papillate). Cypselae obconic to obpyramidal, hirsute (hairs tawny to reddish); pappi persistent, of 30-60 bristles subtending 15-20 subulate-aristate scales, or of ca. 120 bristles. x = 10.
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora
Peucephyllum schottii
Media resource of Peucephyllum schottii
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