Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Coulterophytum brevipes Coult. & Rose, Proc Wash. Acad. 1: 157. 1900. Plants herbaceous, 9-15 dm. high, pubescent in the foliage; leaves ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 4-6 dm. long, about 4 dm. broad, 2-3-pinnate, the leaflets ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate at the base, serrate-apiculate, sparsely puberulent on the veins and finely ciliate; peduncles 6-9 cm. long; involucre usually wanting; involucel usually wanting; rays 17-24, spreading to reflexed, subequal, 25-45 mm. long, glabrous; fertile pedicels 2-8, stout, 1-2 mm. long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; carpophore 4-parled; fruit 10-13 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, glabrous, the contracted base 2-3 mm. long.
Type locality: "Bluffs of barranca above Cuernavaca," Morelos, Pringle 6390. Distribution: Morelos (Lyonnet 998, Pringle 6857, 11,997).
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
