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Aphanostephus skirrobasis (DC.) Trel. ex Coville & Branner

Description

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Annuals, 5–45 cm; vestiture hirsuto-pilose and/or puberulent, stem hairs spreading to deflexed, 0.1–0.3 mm. Phyllary apices acute to short-acuminate. Ray florets (10–)25–45. Disc floret corollas: bases (mature) bulbous-swollen, indurate. Cypselae: hairs apically 1-directionally coiled; pappi usually coroniform, uneven, rarely of acute to awn-tipped scales 0.2–2 mm.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of North America Vol. 20: 351, 352 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Synonym

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Keerlia skirrhobasis de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 5: 310. 1836
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copyright
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of North America Vol. 20: 351, 352 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of North America @ eFloras.org
editor
Flora of North America Editorial Committee
project
eFloras.org
original
visit source
partner site
eFloras