Chrysactinia pinnata S. Wats.

Chrysactinia pinnata S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 25: 154. 1890
A shrub, 3 dm. high or more; branches glabrous or nearly so, slender, striate; leaves opposite, lanceolate in outline, 3-6 cm. long, pinnately divided into 7-21 obliquely deltoid segments, the upper margins of which are at about right angles to the rachis; peduncles 3-6 cm. long; involucre hemispheric, 6 mm. high, 8-10 mm. broad; bracts 8, each with a single oblong gland, glabrous; ligules 5-6 mm. long, ochroleucous inside, bright-orange outside; diskcorollas 4.5 mm. long; tube shorter than the trumpet-shaped throat; lobes triangular; achenes 3 mm. long, striate hispid; pappus tawny, 3.5 mm. long.
Type locautv: Near Monterey, Nuevo Le6n.
Distribution: Nuevo Le6n.