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Chrysactinia
Family: Asteraceae
Chrysactinia image
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John L. Strother in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Subshrubs or shrubs, 10-40[-80] cm (evergreen). Stems erect, strictly branched. Leaves cauline; mostly alternate [opposite]; blades simple [pinnate], linear to clavate or acerose (± fleshy), margins entire, faces usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent (oil-glands marginal or submarginal). Heads radiate, borne singly. Calyculi 0. Involucres turbinate to hemispheric, 3.5-5[-8] mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 8-14 in ± 2 series (distinct to bases, linear to lance-linear [ovate], carinate, each usually bearing 1-5 oil-glands). Receptacles convex to hemispheric, ± pitted, rarely paleate (paleae readily falling). Ray florets 8(-13), pistillate, fertile; corollas bright yellow. Disc florets 15-70, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow to orange, tubes much shorter than cylindro-funnelform throats, lobes 5, lance-deltate. Cypselae cylindric to fusiform, strigillose or glabrescent; pappi persistent, of [20-]30-40 bristles in ± 1 series. x = 15.
Species within checklist: Flora of the National Park Service, Intermountain Region
Chrysactinia mexicana
Image of Chrysactinia mexicana
The National Science Foundation
Development supported by National Science Foundation Grants (DBI 9983132, BRC 0237418, DBI 0743827, DBI 0847966)
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