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Gossypianthus lanuginosus

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Name

Identification
Gossypianthus lanuginosus (Poir.) Moq. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Guilleminea lanuginosa (Poir.) Moq. ex Benth.&Hook.f. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Paronychia lanuginosa Poir. [family ILLECEBRACEAE ]
Related name
  • Guilleminea lanuginosa
  • Gossypianthus lanuginosus
  • Paronychia lanuginosa
  • Guilleminea densa
Common name
  • Wool ly cottonflower, Flora of North America Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Gossypianthus lanuginosus (Poiret) Moquin-Tandon [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 4,
Names
Gossypianthus lanuginosus (Poiret) Moquin-Tandon [family AMARANTHACEAE], in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr., 13(2): 337. 1849
Paronychia lanuginosa Poiret [family ILLECEBRACEAE], in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl., suppl., 4: 303. 1816
Guilleminea lanuginosa (Poiret) Moquin-Tandon ex Bentham & Hooker f. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Treatment Author(s)
Steven E. Clemants
Information
Plants 1–7 dm diam. Stems prostrate to decumbent, 0.4–1 mm diam., sparsely pilose to strongly woolly-villous with whitish, straight to wavy-crinkled hairs. Leaves basal and cauline; basal leaves with petiole 0.5–2 cm, blade linear or linear-oblanceolate to spatulate, 1.6–9.7 × 0.2–1(–1.7) cm; cauline leaves with winged petiole 1–5 mm, blade ovate, elliptic-ovate elliptic, oblong-elliptic, oblong, or oblong-ovate, (0.1–)0.5–1.8(–3.3) × (0.1–)0.2–0.7 (–1.3) cm, glabrous or sparsely to densely pilose to strigose. Glomerules white, globose to cylindric, 1–10 × 5–8 mm. Flowers sessile; tepals green, oblong-lanceolate, outer tepals 2.5–4 mm, inner tepals 2.5–3.6 mm, chartaceous, apex acuminate, woolly-villous on exposed surfaces. Utricles included within tepals, 1.4–2 mm. Seeds 0.8–1.2 × 0.6–0.9 mm.
Distribution
North AmericaMexicoWest Indies.

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