Lessingia glandulifera

A. Gray

Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 207. 1882.

Illustrated
Synonyms: Lessingia germanorum var. glandulifera (A. Gray) J. T. Howell
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 454. Mentioned on page 453.

Plants 5–40 cm. Stems erect, tan, glabrous or villous to woolly. Leaves: basal withering before flowering; cauline margins ± entire, faces sessile-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous to woolly. Heads borne singly at ends of branchlets. Involucres obconic to cylindric, 4–7 mm. Phyllaries green, glabrous or villous to tomentose, gland-dotted; inner scarious. Disc-florets 10–30; corollas yellow (tubes without brown-purple band inside); style-branch appendages lanceolate, 0.3–1.3 mm. Pappi white to tan, equaling or longer than cypselae.

Distribution

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Ariz., Calif., Nev., nw Mexico

Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Phyllaries tomentose Lessingia glandulifera var. peirsonii
1 Phyllaries glabrous or villous > 2
2 Stems and abaxial leaf faces woolly (Warner Springs, San Diego County, California) Lessingia glandulifera var. tomentosa
2 Stems and abaxial leaf faces glabrous or villous Lessingia glandulifera var. glandulifera
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villous +  and woolly +
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
spiciform +, racemiform +, paniculiform +  and corymbiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Staci Markos +
A. Gray +
decurrent +
obovate;lanceolate linear or subulate +
rugulose +  and muricate +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
5-10-nerved +  and smooth +
beaked +, 2-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
not compressed +, cuneiform +  and linear +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Ariz. +, Calif. +, Nev. +  and nw Mexico +
puberulent +  and pilose +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
in more or less corymbiform arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
obconic;cylindric +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
cauline +  and basal +
spreading;erect +
lanceolate +
dentate to pinnately lobed +  and entire +
2-carpellate +
white +  and tan +
persistent +
connate +  and distinct +
gland-dotted +  and green +
recurved +  and erect +
villous +  and tomentose +
lanceolate +, ovate +  and oblong +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
styliferous +, neuter +  and pistillate +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
exalbuminous +
Illustrated +
branched +  and simple +
villous +  and woolly +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br />) +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Lessingia germanorum var. glandulifera +
Lessingia glandulifera +
Lessingia +
species +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br />) +