Gomphrena pilosa (Mart. & Gal.) Moq.

Gomphrena pilosa (Mart. & Gal.) Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 395
1849.
Mogiphanes pilosa Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 10 1 : 348. 1843. Xeraea pilosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 545. 1891.
Stems erect or ascending, suffrutescent at the base, slender, branched, the branches ascending, appressed-pilose with fulvous hairs when young, glabrate in age; petioles slender, 4-10 mm . long; leaf -blades lance-elliptic to ovate-oblong, 3-6 cm. long, 0.8-2 cm. wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, acute or obtuse and short-decurrent at the base, thin, green, sparsely appressed-pilose on both surfaces; peduncles axillary, 2.5-7 cm. long, slender, naked; heads subglobose, 12 mm. in diameter; bracts and bractlets half as long as the sepals, ovate, aristateacuminate, hyaline, fulvous, pilose; sepals 4^5 mm. long, lance-elliptic, long-acuminate, 3nerved, short-pilose above, densely long-pilose at the base, white-stramineous; stamentube nearly equaling the sepals, the free part of the filaments very short, the lobes narrowly triangular, acute or obtuse, equaling the anthers; style very short, the stigmas short, subulate.
Type IvOCamty: Cultivated fields near Ario, Michoacan, at an altitude of 1350 meters. Distribution: Michoacan and Guanajuato.