Perityle quinqueflora

(Steyermark) Shinners

SouthW. Naturalist 4: 205. 1959.

Common names: Five-flower rock daisy
Endemic
Basionym: Laphamia quinqueflora Steyermark Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 19: 392. 1932
Synonyms: Pappothrix quinqueflora (Steyermark) Everly
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 318. Mentioned on page 319.

Plants 7–30 cm (often densely leafy); usually glabrate or puberulent, sometimes hirtellous. Leaves: petioles 5–8 (–12) mm; blades reniform to cordate, 8–20 (–33) × 8–20 (–33) mm, margins subentire, dentate-toothed, or shallow-lobed. Heads in corymbiform arrays, 7–8 (–9) × 2–3 mm. Peduncles 2–10 (–15) mm. Involucres cylindric to narrowly campanulate. Phyllaries 5–6, linear-lanceolate, 5–6 (–9) × (1–) 1.3–1.7 mm. Disc-florets 5–6 (–8); corollas yellow, tubes 1–1.3 mm, throats tubular, 2–2.3 (–2.8) mm, lobes 0.5–1 mm. Cypselae 1.9–2 (–2.9) mm; pappi of 25–30 bristles 0.6–2.5 (–3.5) mm. 2n = 34.


Phenology: Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat: Crevices of limestone (rarely igneous) rock in high canyons, bluffs, and caprock
Elevation: 1200–2500 m

Discussion

Perityle quinqueflora grows in mountains of west-central trans-Pecos Texas and adjacent New Mexico. Possibly P. quinqueflora and the similar P. rupestris var. rupestris have both evolved from a widespread common ancestor resembling P. cernua.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Perityle quinqueflora"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
connate +  and distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Sharon C. Yarborough +  and A. Michael Powell +
(Steyermark) Shinners +
decurrent +
Laphamia quinqueflora +
compound +  and simple +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3.3 cm33 mm <br />0.033 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3.3 cm33 mm <br />0.033 m <br />) +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
reniform;cordate +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
winged;ribbed;winged;ribbed +
tuberculate +  and rugose +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
Five-flower rock daisy +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.29 cm2.9 mm <br />0.0029 m <br />) +
angled +, rounded +, oblong +  and narrowly oblanceolate partially flattened +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
N.Mex. +  and Tex. +
1200–2500 m +
hairy +  and glabrous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Crevices of limestone (rarely igneous) rock in high canyons, bluffs, and caprock +
discoid +  and radiate +
in corymbiform arrays +  and singly +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
indeterminate +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
each +  and sessile +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
cylindric;narrowly campanulate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +  and opposite +
deltate +
dentate to pinnatifid or palmatifid +  and entire +
short-hairy +  and glabrous +
shallow-lobed +, dentate-toothed +  and subentire +
calloused +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
Flowering spring–fall. +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br /> (0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br />) +
SouthW. Naturalist +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
convex;flat +
exalbuminous +
erect +  and pendent +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +  and glabrous +
papillate +
Pappothrix quinqueflora +
Perityle quinqueflora +
Perityle sect. Pappothrix +
species +
0.23 cm2.3 mm <br />0.0023 m <br /> (0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.23 cm2.3 mm <br />0.0023 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br />) +
lobed +, toothed +  and entire +
45 cm450 mm <br />0.45 m <br /> (75 cm750 mm <br />0.75 m <br />) +
hirtellous +, puberulent +  and glabrate +