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Tetraneuris torreyana

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Original material of Tetraneuris torreyana (Nutt.) Greene [family ASTERACEAE]
Original material of Tetraneuris torreyana (Nutt.) Greene [family ASTERACEAE]
Holotype of Actinella depressa Torrey & A. Gray [family ASTERACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Tetraneuris torreyana (Nuttall) Greene [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by M. W. Bierner, Actinella depressa Torrey & A. Gray [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Torrey & A. Gray, 1849
Related name
  • Actinella depressa
  • Tetraneuris torreyana

Flora

Entry for Tetraneuris torreyana (Nuttall) 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 21,
Names
Tetraneuris torreyana (Nuttall) Greene [family COMPOSITAE], Pittonia, 3: 265. 1898
Actinella torreyana Nuttall [family COMPOSITAE], Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s., 7: 379. 1841
Hymenoxys depressa (Torrey & A. Gray) S. L. Welsh & Reveal [family COMPOSITAE]
Hymenoxys lapidicola S. L. Welsh & Neese [family COMPOSITAE]
Hymenoxys torreyana (Nuttall) K. F. Parker [family COMPOSITAE]
Tetraneuris depressa (Torrey & A. Gray) Greene [family COMPOSITAE]
Treatment Author(s)
Mark W. Bierner
Billie L. Turner
Information
Perennials, 2–15+ cm. Caudices ± branched, branches notably thickened distally. Stems 1–30(–40), erect, unbranched. Leaves all basal, new leaves tightly clustered; blades (midribs usually pronounced) spatulate or oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, entire, glabrous or usually sparsely, sometimes moderately to densely, hairy, densely gland-dotted. Heads 1–10(–40) per plant, borne singly. Peduncles (0.5–)2–15 cm, ± hairy proximally, almost always densely lanate distally. Involucres 10–12 × 12–15 mm. Outer phyllaries 4–8, 6–8.5 mm, margins (0.3–)0.5–1.2 mm wide, usually conspicuously scarious, abaxial faces ± hairy. Ray florets 7–14; corollas 11–17 mm. Disc florets 25–150+; corollas yellow, 4–4.7 mm. Cypselae 3–4 mm; pappi of 5–7 obovate to oblanceolate, aristate scales 3–4(–4.5) mm.
Phenology
may (spring), jun (summer), sep (fall)
Altitude range
(1300–)1700–3100 m;
Distribution
USA Colo.USA Mont.USA UtahUSA Wyo.

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