Gomphrena haageana
Allg. Gartenzeitung 21: 297. 1853.
Common names: Rio Grande globe-amaranth
Illustrated
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Plants perennial, not cespitose, 2–7 dm; roots primary, fusiform, fleshy. Stems erect, pilose. Leaves sessile or petiolate; petiole to 2 cm; blade green, oblanceolate to oblong-linear, 3–10 × 0.3–1 cm, apex acute to acuminate, mucronate, pilose. Inflorescences: heads stramineous, globose to short-cylindric, 20–28 mm diam.; bractlets crested along keel. Flowers: tube densely lanate; perianth lobes stramineous, linear-lanceolate, 5.3 mm, hyaline, apex acuminate. Utricles ovoid, 2.2 mm, apex acute. Seeds 1.4 mm.
Phenology: Flowering fall.
Habitat: Rocky banks
Elevation: 1200-1500 m
Distribution
N.Mex., Tex., Mexico (Coahuila), Mexico (Nuevo León), Mexico (Sonora)
Discussion
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... more about "Gomphrena haageana"
dehiscence +
pilose +
acute;acuminate;mucronate;acute;acuminate +
green +
not fleshy +
crested +
Rio Grande globe-amaranth +
peripheral +
alternating +
connate +
hypogynous +
bisexual +
cluster +
stramineous +
Present +
sessile +
arranged +
opposite +
long-pilose +
superior +
surrounding +
absent +
Allg. Gartenzeitung +
1853 +
fusiform +
fleshy +
1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br /> (?) +
Illustrated +
decumbent +
erect +
pilose +
absent +
Gomphrena haageana +
Gomphrena +
species +
connate +
absent +
simple +
lanate +
stramineous +
indehiscent +
ovoid +
2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br /> (?) +
membranous +
perennial +