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Verbesina nana

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Identification
Verbesina nana (A. Gray) B. L. Robinson & Greenman [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by B. L. Robinson & J. M. Greenman, Ximenesia encelioides Cavanilles [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by A. Gray, Ximenesia encelioides Cavanilles [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by A. Gray,
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Flora

Entry for Verbesina nana (A. Gray) B. L. Robinson & Greenman [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
Verbesina nana (A. Gray) B. L. Robinson & Greenman [family COMPOSITAE], Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts, 34: 543. 1899
Ximenesia encelioides Cavanilles var. nana A. Gray [family COMPOSITAE], Smithsonian Contr. Knowl., 5(6): 92. 1853
Treatment Author(s)
John L. Strother
Information
Plants mostly 7–15+ cm (perennating bases ± erect, internodes not winged). Leaves all or mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate); blades ± deltate to rhombic, 3–8+ × 2–5+ cm, bases ± cuneate, margins raggedly toothed, apices obtuse to acute, faces strigoso-sericeous. Heads borne singly or 2–3 together. Involucres shallowly bowl-shaped, 15–25+ mm diam. Phyllaries 28–35+ in 2–3 series, ± erect, linear to lance-olate, 8–12+ mm. Ray florets 12–16+; laminae 10–12+ mm. Disc florets 80–150+; corollas yellow to orange. Cypselae blackish, ± elliptic, 6.5–8 mm, faces ± strigillose; pappi 0.5–1+ mm. 2n = 68.
Phenology
may (spring), oct (fall)
Altitude range
1000–2000 m;
Distribution
Mexico (Coahuila).USA N.Mex.USA Tex.

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