Description
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Leaf blades 3–5 cm × 12–18 mm overall. Phyllaries 8–10 mm. Ray laminae 7–8 mm. Disc corollas: tubes 0.8–1 mm, throats 2.5–3 mm, lobes 0.5–0.8 mm. Cypselae 3–4 mm; pappus scales 1.5–2 mm.
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Synonym
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Actinella palmeri A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 31. 1883
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Comprehensive Description
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Plateilema palmeri (A. Gray) Cockerell, Bull. Torrcv Club 31:
462. 1904.
Actinella Palmeri A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 31. 1883.
A depressed subscapose perennial, with a cespitose rootstock; leaves obovate in outline,
4-5 cm. long, pinnately round-lobed, firm, resembling oak-leaves, very sparingly hispid or
glabrate; scape 2-4 cm. long; involucre about 8 mm. high and 15 mm. broad, sparingly his-
pidulous, especially on the margins; bracts broadly ovate, acute, with spreading tips; ligules
7-8 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide; disk-corollas 3.5 mm. long; achenes 3 mm. long, less than
1 mm. broad; squarnellae 2 mm. long, brown.
Type locality: Near Saltillo. Coahuila. Distribution: State of Coahuila.
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- Per Axel Rydberg. 1915. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; HELENIEAE, TAGETEAE. North American flora. vol 34(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
