Gomphrena haageana

Klotzsch

Allg. Gartenzeitung 21: 297. 1853.

Common names: Rio Grande globe-amaranth
Illustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 454. Mentioned on page 451, 452.

Plants perennial, not cespitose, 2–7 dm; roots primary, fusiform, fleshy. Stems erect, pilose. Leaves sessile or petiolate; petiole to 2 cm; blade green, oblanceolate to oblong-linear, 3–10 × 0.3–1 cm, apex acute to acuminate, mucronate, pilose. Inflorescences: heads stramineous, globose to short-cylindric, 20–28 mm diam.; bractlets crested along keel. Flowers: tube densely lanate; perianth lobes stramineous, linear-lanceolate, 5.3 mm, hyaline, apex acuminate. Utricles ovoid, 2.2 mm, apex acute. Seeds 1.4 mm.


Phenology: Flowering fall.
Habitat: Rocky banks
Elevation: 1200-1500 m

Distribution

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N.Mex., Tex., Mexico (Coahuila), Mexico (Nuevo León), Mexico (Sonora)

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Gomphrena haageana"
acute;acuminate;mucronate;acute;acuminate +
Steven E. Clemants +
Klotzsch +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
oblanceolate +  and oblong-linear +
not fleshy +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Rio Grande globe-amaranth +
N.Mex. +, Tex. +, Mexico (Coahuila) +, Mexico (Nuevo León) +  and Mexico (Sonora) +
1200-1500 m +
peripheral +
hypogynous +
minute +  and small +
not +  and dehiscent +
Rocky banks +
stramineous +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br />) +
globose +  and short-cylindric +
axillary +  and terminal +
petiolate +  and sessile +
long-pilose +
hyaline +  and stramineous +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
Flowering fall. +
Allg. Gartenzeitung +
fusiform +
brown +, reddish-brown +  and black +
subglobose +  and ovoid +
1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br /> (?) +
Illustrated +
filiform +  and subulate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
Gomphrena haageana +
Gomphrena +
species +
indurate +, membranaceous +, chartaceous +  and scarious +
2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br /> (?) +
membranous +
plant +  and not cespitose +