Comments
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Some collections of Stevia serrata from Cochise and Graham counties, Arizona, were annotated by J. L. Grashoff as "S. serrata > plummerae"; in leaf arrange-ment and morphology (venation, margin, and shape), they appear to be similar to typical S. serrata from the same area.
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Description
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Perennials, 40–100 cm. Leaves mostly alternate (at least not regularly opposite, crowded, with axillary clusters of smaller leaves); petioles 0; blades (3-nerved) narrowly lanceolate to lance-linear, 1.5–4 cm, margins serrulate. Heads borne in ± congested, compact clusters. Peduncles 0 or 1–4 mm, sessile-glandular, villous-puberulent. Involucres 5–6(–7) mm. Phyllaries sessile-glandular, sparsely villosulous, apices acute to acuminate. Corollas white or pink, lobes sparsely sessile-glandular, finely villous-hirsute. Pappi usually ± equaling corollas, sometimes coroniform or 0. 2n = (22–)34(–54) univalents, less often 17 pairs.
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Synonym
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Stevia serrata var. haplopappa B. L. Robinson; S. serrata var. ivifolia (Willdenow) B. L. Robinson
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