Coreocarpus
Bot. Voy. Sulphur 28, plate 16. 1844.
| Taxon | Illustrator ⠉ | |
|---|---|---|
 | Coreocarpus arizonicus Thelesperma subnudum Thelesperma filifolium | Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey |
Perennials [subshrubs], 10–70 (–120+) cm. Stems 1, erect [sprawling], branched throughout. Leaves cauline; opposite; obscurely petiolate; blades 1–2-pinnately or pedately lobed (ultimate lobes narrowly lanceolate to filiform [lanceolate to ovate]), ultimate margins entire, faces usually glabrous, rarely hairy [pilose]. Heads usually radiate, sometimes discoid, in open, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays [borne singly]. Calyculi of (0–) 1–3+ linear to subulate, herbaceous bractlets. Involucres ± campanulate to turbinate, 3–5+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 5–8 [–13+] in ± 2 series, distinct, (green to stramineous with redbrown to purplish nerves) ovate to oblong, ± equal, membranous, margins scarious. Receptacles flat to convex, paleate; paleae falling, (stramineous with redbrown striae) lance-linear to lanceolate, membranous to scarious [adnate to cypselae]. Ray-florets 0, or [1–] 5–8, pistillate, fertile [styliferous and sterile or neuter]; corollas [orange] yellow to pale-yellow or white [purplish]. Disc-florets [5–] 12–25 [–30+], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow with redbrown nerves, tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform throats, lobes 5, ± deltate. Cypselae (blackish or redbrown to stramineous) obcompressed, ± oblanceolate, faces smooth or ± granular-papillate, margins ± winged, wings ± corky, ± pectinate [entire]; pappi 0, or persistent, of 1–2 retrorsely [antrorsely] barbellate awns. x = 12.
Distribution
sw United States, nw Mexico
Discussion
Species ca. 9 (1 in the flora).
Selected References
Lower Taxa
"broader" is not a number.