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Adenophyllum cancellatum (Cass.) Kuntze

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Lebetina cancellata Cass. Diet. Sci. Nat. 25: 395. 1822
Dyssodia Porophyllum Willd. Enum. 900. 1809. Not D. porophylla Cav. 1803.
Boebera Porophyllum Less. Syn. Gen. Comp. 237. 1832. Not B. Porophyllum H. B. K. 1820.
Adenophyllum Porophyllum Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 218, mainly. 1881.
Dyssodia cancellata A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 38. 1883.
Tagetes cancellata Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 19: 276. 1890.
A branched annual; stem 3-10 dm. high, angled and striate, glabrous; leaves alternate,
pinnately cleft, with rounded sinuses and oblong-toothed lobes, some of the teeth ending in
long bristles; glands large, marginal in the sinuses and nearly terminal in the lobes; heads
corymbose-paniculate; peduncles 3-8 cm. long, bracteate; involucre turbinate, 10-12 mm. high,
12-15 mm. broad; accessory bracts 6-7, pectinately dissected, with 3-5 pairs of bristle-like
divisions and a single large gland; principal bracts about 15, keeled, glabrous, acuminate, the
horn 1-2 mm. long; ligules orange, elliptic, 7-9 mm. long, spreading; disk-corollas about
7 mm. long, the cylindric tube, trumpet-shaped throat, and lanceolate lobes of about the same
length; achenes 5 mm. long, striate, glabrous; pappus distinctly double; inner squamellae
5 mm. long, divided into 7-10 bristles, the outer spatulate, 1 mm. long, barely erose.
Type locality: Cultivated in the Royal Garden of Paris, of unknown origin. Distribution: Chihuahua and Sonora to Yucatan and Jalisco.
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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
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Lebetina cubana Rydberg, sp. nov
A glabrous annual; stem 3-6 dm. high, striate or somewhat angled; leaves 2-4 cm. long,
alternate, pinnately parted, the lower into obovate or spatulate, the upper into cuneate-
oblong, toothed divisions, some of the teeth bristle-pointed; glands large, marginal in the
sinuses and subterminal in the lobes; heads corymbose, on bracted peduncles 3-8 cm. long;
involucre turbinate, 7-10 mm. high, 8-12 mm. broad; accessory bracts 10-15, pectinate with
3-4 pairs of setaceous divisions; principal bracts 15-18, acuminate, the horn 1 mm. long;
ligules oblong, 3 mm. long; disk-corollas 5 mm. long, the tube and throat equal, the lobes
lanceolate, somewhat shorter; achenes 4 mm. long, striate; pappus double; inner squamellae
dissected into 7-9 bristles, 5 mm. long; outer squamellae oblong-spatulate, 1 mm. long.
Type collected near Havana, Cuba, December 3, 1904, A. H. Curtiss 548 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Western Cuba.
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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
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