Egletes viscosa
Syn. Gen. Compos., 252. 1832.
Common names: Tropical daisy
Illustrated
Basionym: Cotula viscosa Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 2: 892. 1753
Synonyms: Egletes viscosa var. dissecta Shinners
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 35.
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Plants aromatic, densely viscid with stipitate-glandular trichomes, mixed with much longer, translucent, nonglandular hairs 1–3 mm. Stems erect to decumbent. Leaf-blades sublyrate to pinnatifid, 20–70 (–120) mm. Ray laminae elliptic-obovate, 0.5–0.8 (–1.6) mm wide. Disc corollas 1.2–1.5 mm. Cypselae 1.2–1.7 mm, short-stipitate-glandular; pappi uneven rings. 2n = 54.
Phenology: Flowering Jan–Mar.
Habitat: Palm groves, often in seasonally submerged areas with mud or clay, fields, roadside ditches
Elevation: 0–10 m
Distribution
Tex., Mexico, West Indies, n South America
Discussion
In the flora area, Egletes viscosa is known only from Cameron County, southernmost Texas. It grows in Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and coastal localities in other Mexican states.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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introrse +
connate +
distinct +
herbaceous +
scarious +
hirsute +
papillate +
corymbiform +
continuous +
decurrent +
obovate;spatulate +
ribbed +
stigmatic +
persistent +
absent +
Tropical daisy +
absent +
tubular-funnelform +
monomorphic +
2-ribbed +
dimorphic +
short-stipitate-glandular +
1.2mm;1.7mm +
staminate +
straight +
distinct +
proximal +
1;5 +
bisexual +
dispersed +
Palm groves, often in seasonally submerged areas with mud or clay, fields, roadside ditches +
translucent +
longer +
singly +
indeterminate +
Present +
surrounding +
cupulate;hemispheric +
alternate +
erect +
deltate +
pinnatifid +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
anatropous +
whitish +
coroniform +
tough +
thick +
absent +
connate +
persistent +
distinct +
herbaceous +
falling +
lanceolate-triangular +
subequal +
Syn. Gen. Compos., +
1832 +
pistillate +
absent +
fertile +
elliptic-obovate +
epaleate +
pitted +
conic +
uneven +
fibrous +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
2;3 +
Illustrated +
alternate +
branched +
arachnose +
triangular +
2-branched +
glabrous +
Egletes viscosa +
Egletes +
species +
stipitate-glandular +
shorter +
annual +
viscid +
aromatic +