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Monolopia heermannii

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Type? of Monolopia heermannii Durand [family ASTERACEAE]
Lectotype of Monolopia heermannii Durand [family ASTERACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Monolopia heermannii Durand [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Durand, 1855
Related name
  • Monolopia bahiifolia
  • Monolopia heermannii
Common name
  • Foothill sunburst, Flora of North America Vol. 21
  • brittlestem, Flora of North America Vol. 21

Flora

Entry for Pseudobahia heermannii (Durand) Rydberg [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 21,
Names
Pseudobahia heermannii (Durand) Rydberg [family COMPOSITAE], in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl., 34: 83. 1915
Monolopia heermannii Durand [family COMPOSITAE], J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, n. s., 3: 93. 1855
Treatment Author(s)
Dale E. Johnson
Information
Plants to 30 cm. Leaves 10–30 mm, mostly 1-pinnately lobed (lobes 0.5–1.5 mm wide), distal sometimes entire. Peduncles 20–50 mm. Phyllaries ± 8, connate to 1/2 their lengths, elliptic to lanceolate (each pair with semicircular crest proximal to sinus, hard at maturity, ± enclosing cypselae). Ray florets ± 8. Disc florets 8–25+; tubes cylindric, abruptly dilated (throats broadly funnelform), lobes glabrous. Cypselae 2–2.5 mm. 2n = 6 + 0–2I, 8 + 0–1I or 0–1B, 10 + 0–1I.
Phenology
mar-may (spring), jun (summer)
Altitude range
100–1600 m;
Distribution
USA Calif.

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