Comprehensive Description
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Achyropappus anthemoides H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 4: 259
1820.
Bahia anthemoides A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 15: 40. 1879.
Schkuhria anthemoides Wedd. ; Jacks. Ind. Kew. 4 : 827, as synonym. 1895. Not 5. anthemoides Coult. 1895.
A strigose and glandular annual; stem erect, branched, 2-4 dm. high, angular, glandularhispid, especially above; leaves opposite, twice ternate, glandular-hispid, and hirsute, petioled, with linear segments; heads at the ends of the branches; peduncles 1-3 cm. long, glandularhispid; involucre hemispheric, 5 mm. high, 7 mm. broad; bracts 5, obovate, glandular-hispid, with yellow margins; ligules 5, cuneate, 5 mm. long, white; achenes obpyramidal, 3-angled, hirsute; squamellae 6-8, scarious, obovate-cuneate, obtuse, slightly costate at the base.
Type locality: Near Ixtlahuaca. Mexico (state). Distribution: South central Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1914. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; HELENIEAE. North American flora. vol 34(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Achyropappus anthemoides: Brief Summary
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Achyropappus anthemoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Mexico. It was first described by Carl Sigismund Kunth in 1818.
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