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Lessingia pectinata

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Isosyntype of Lessingia pectinata Greene, E.L. 1896 [family ASTERACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lessingia pectinata Greene, E.L. 1896 [family ASTERACEAE]
Isosyntype of Lessingia pectinata Greene [family ASTERACEAE]
Original material of Lessingia pectinata Greene [family ASTERACEAE]
Lessingia pectinata Greene [family COMPOSITAE]
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Name

Identification
Lessingia glandulifera A. Gray [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by W. Spence (UC), 1963 Lessingia pectinata Greene [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Greene,
Related name
  • Lessingia pectinata
  • Lessingia glandulifera

Flora

Entry for Lessingia pectinata Greene [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 20,
Names
Lessingia pectinata Greene [family COMPOSITAE], Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 47: 548. 1896
Lessingia germanorum Chamisso var. pectinata (Greene) J. T. Howell [family COMPOSITAE]
Lessingia glandulifera A. Gray var. pectinata (Greene) Jepson [family COMPOSITAE]
Treatment Author(s)
Staci Markos
Information
Plants 5–70 cm. Stems erect, green, tan, or reddish to dark brown, usually glabrous or villous, rarely tomentose. Leaves: basal withering by flowering; cauline margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed, faces gland-dotted, abaxial glabrous or villous to tomentose. Heads borne singly, at ends of branchlets. Involucres obconic, (4–)5–8 mm. Phyllaries usually green, rarely purple, faces glabrous or villous to tomentose, gland-dotted; inner ± scarious. Disc florets 15–30; corollas yellow (tubes with brown-purple band inside); style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.1–0.2 mm. Pappi white to tan, equal to or longer than cypselae.
Distribution
USA California.

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