Stevia micrantha

Lagasca

Gen. Sp. Pl., 27. 1816.

Common names: Annual candyleaf
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 484. Mentioned on page 483.

Annuals, 10–35 (–40) cm. Leaves mostly opposite (distal often alternate); petioles (0–) 4–11 mm; blades ovate to ovate-deltate or trullate, 1–3.5 (–5) cm, margins serrate. Heads in open, lax, subcorymbiform or paniculiform (sometimes nearly cylindric) arrays. Peduncles (1–) 3–10 mm, stipitate-glandular. Involucres 6–8 mm. Phyllaries stipitate and sessile-glandular, apices acute. Corollas white, lobes sparsely hirsute. Pappi surpassing corollas. 2n = 22.


Phenology: Flowering (Aug–)Sep–Oct.
Habitat: Grassy openings, damp and shady, oak, oak-walnut, oak-pine, and pinyon pine-ponderosa pine woodlands
Elevation: 1800–2700 m

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Stevia micrantha"
not tailed +, truncate +, rounded +  and obtuse +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually terete +  and clavate +
paniculiform +  and open +
subcorymbiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Guy L. Nesom +
Lagasca +
decurrent +
enlarged +
3-nerved +  and 1-nerved +
3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
dissected +, lobed +, toothed +  and entire +
ovate;ovate-deltate or trullate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
papillate +  and rugose +
(4-)5-angled;10-ribbed +
filiform +
Annual candyleaf +
scabrellous +
columnar +  and prismatic or fusiform +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Ariz. +, N.Mex. +  and Mexico +
1800–2700 m +
glabrous +, glabrescent +, puberulent +  and hirtellous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Grassy openings, damp and shady, oak, oak-walnut, oak-pine, and pinyon pine-ponderosa pine woodlands +
in usually determinate , rarely indeterminate , arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
each +  and sessile +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
lanceolate +  and lance-linear +
toothed +  and serrulate +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
subulate-aristate +  and setiform +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
stipitate-glandular +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
Flowering (Aug–)Sep–Oct. +
subequal +  and unequal +
Gen. Sp. Pl., +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
convex;flat +
0 +  and 5 +
muticous +
exalbuminous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +
papillate +
Compositae +
Stevia micrantha +
species +
35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +
17 +, 12 +  and 11 +