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Psilocarphus tenellus is relatively common in the Californian Floristic Province from northwestern Baja California to southwestern Oregon; northward it is scattered to northern Idaho and Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It has been of conservation concern in Canada (J. M. Illingworth and G. W. Douglas 1994b).
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Description
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Plants greenish to grayish, arachnoid to ± sericeous. Stems (1–)2–10, ascending to ± prostrate; proximal internode lengths mostly 1–2(–3) times leaf lengths. Capitular leaves ± spreading, mostly not appressed to heads, spatulate to obovate, widest in distal 1/3, longest 6–15 mm, lengths mostly 2–5 times widths, 1.5–2.5(–3) times head heights. Heads ± spheric, largest 3–5.5 mm. Receptacles unlobed. Pistillate paleae individually visible through indument, longest mostly 1.5–2.7 mm. Staminate corollas 0.8–1.5 mm, lobes mostly 5. Cypselae narrowly obovoid, somewhat compressed, 0.7–1.2 mm.
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