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Lessingia micradenia
Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit 2: 28. 1910.
EndemicConservation concern
Synonyms: Lessingia ramulosa var. micradenia (Greene) J. T. Howell
Plants 5–60 cm. Stems erect, tan to brown, glabrous. Leaves: basal withering before flowering; cauline margins entire, faces usually eglandular, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous. Heads borne ± singly, at ends of branchlets. Involucres cylindric to narrowly obconic, 4–6 mm. Phyllaries purple-tipped, faces glabrous, stipitate-glandular or gland-dotted; inner scarious. Disc-florets 3–10; corollas white to pale lavender (color more intense in tubes); style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.1–0.3 mm. Pappi tan, equal to or shorter than cypselae.
Discussion
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
Selected References
None.
Key
| 1 | Phyllaries stipitate-glandular | Lessingia micradenia var. micradenia |
| 1 | Phyllaries not stipitate-glandular (sessile-glandular) | Lessingia micradenia var. glabrata |
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introrse +
connate +
distinct +
herbaceous +
scarious +
hirsute +
papillate +
continuous +
withering +
decurrent +
1-nerved +
obovate;lanceolate linear or subulate +
ribbed +
stigmatic +
persistent +
absent +
absent +
dimorphic +
staminate +
Calif. +
straight +
singly +
eglandular +
gland-dotted +
distinct +
proximal +
1;5 +
bisexual +
dispersed +
discoid +
indeterminate +
scarious +
surrounding +
cylindric;narrowly obconic +
alternate +
spreading;erect +
lanceolate +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
anatropous +
barbellate +
persistent +
shorter +
equal +
tough +
thick +
absent +
connate +
purple-tipped +
persistent +
distinct +
herbaceous +
falling +
cartilaginous +
unequal +
Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit +
1910 +
absent +
sterile +
epaleate +
pitted +
convex +
fibrous +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
1;2 +
alternate +
erect +
glabrous +
truncate-penicillate +
2-branched +
glabrous +
Lessingia micradenia +
Lessingia +
species +
taprooted +
annual +