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Blennosperma nanum
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 39: 144. 1926.
IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Chrysanthemum nanum Hooker Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 320. 1833
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 640.
Proximal leaves mostly 3–6+ cm, usually 5–15-lobed. Involucres 5–6+ mm. Ray-florets: corollas (sometimes 0) usually yellow, rarely white, often purplish abaxially, 3–7 mm; stigmas yellow. Disc-florets 20–100+. Cypselae 2.5–4.5 mm, sometimes epapillate. 2n = 14.
Discussion
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
Selected References
None.
Key
| 1 | Disc florets mostly 12–60(–70+); cypselae mostly 2.5–3 mm | Blennosperma nanum var. nanum |
| 1 | Disc florets mostly 60–100+; cypselae mostly3-4.5 mm | Blennosperma nanum var. robustum |
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introrse +
connate +
papillate +
deltate;lanceolate or penicillate +
scarious +
hispidulous +
papillate +
continuous +
decurrent +
nerved +
winged;nerved;ribbed +
1;15 +
stigmatic +
persistent +
absent +
sessile +
monomorphic +
epapillate +
2.5mm;4.5mm +
staminate +
staminate +
Calif. +
straight +
distinct +
proximal +
1;5 +
bisexual +
dispersed +
singly +
indeterminate +
surrounding +
hemispheric +
sessile +
alternate +
erect +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
anatropous +
absent +
tough +
thick +
absent +
connate +
persistent +
connate +
herbaceous +
falling +
erect +
subequal +
equal +
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. +
1926 +
pistillate +
absent +
epaleate +
flat;convex +
fibrous +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
alternate +
erect +
yellow +
2-branched +
glabrous +
papillate +
not divided +
Blennosperma nanum +
Blennosperma +
species +
campanulate +
shorter to longer +
annual +