Carphephorus carnosus
Rhodora 60: 120. 1958.
Common names: Pineland chaffhead
Endemic
Basionym: Litrisa carnosa Small Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 51: 392. 1924
Synonyms: Trilisa carnosa (Small) B. L. Robinson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 536.
Plants 20–50 (–90) cm. Stems densely puberulous or villoso-hirsute, densely glanddotted. Leaves: basal (in rosettes) oblanceolate, mostly 3–7 (–9) cm; cauline abruptly reduced, not clasping, faces glanddotted. Heads in flat-topped, corymbiform arrays. Peduncles hirsutulous and sparsely glanddotted. Involucres 4.5–6 mm. Phyllaries 5–12 in 1–2 (–3) series, oblong to oblong-oblanceolate or elliptic-ovate (inner pectinate-ciliate), villoso-hirsute, glanddotted, apices acute to obtuse-mucronate. Receptacles epaleate or partially paleate (paleae 1–2). Corollas glandular, lobes 0.8–1 mm. Cypselae eglandular; pappus bristles in ± 2 series. 2n = 20.
Phenology: Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Oct(–Nov).
Habitat: Low pinelands, pine and pine-palmetto flatwoods, grass-sedge bogs, seepage slopes, ditches, prairies
Elevation: 60–100 m
Discussion
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Lower Taxa
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introrse +
connate +
acute;obtuse-mucronate +
scarious +
absent +
hirsute +
papillate +
corymbiform +
flat-topped +
continuous +
oblanceolate +
glabrous +
decurrent +
1-nerved +
linear;oblanceolate or spatulate +
(4-)5-angled;10-ribbed +
linear-clavate +
stigmatic +
barbellulate +
coarse +
absent +
not clasping +
reduced +
Pineland chaffhead +
not 2-lipped +
eglandular +
10-ribbed +
hispid-strigose +
scabrellous +
prismatic +
Fla. +
straight +
distinct +
proximal +
12;35 +
bisexual +
dispersed +
singly +
Low pinelands, pine and pine-palmetto flatwoods, grass-sedge bogs, seepage slopes, ditches, prairies +
discoid +
indeterminate +
homogamous +
surrounding +
campanulate;hemispheric +
alternate +
? (?) +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
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persistent +
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nerved +
persistent +
distinct +
villoso-hirsute +
unequal +
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Rhodora +
1958 +
absent +
convex +
fibrous +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
2;1;2 +
Endemic +
alternate +
not branched +
erect +
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