Description
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Leaves 5–20(–50) × 1–2 mm. Peduncles 8–25 mm, glabrous or stipitate-glandular. Disc corollas 6.5–8.5 mm. Cypselae 3.2–4 mm; pappus elements 2–6 mm. 2n = 40.
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Comprehensive Description
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Peucephyllum schottii A. Gray, in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound Surv. 74. 1859.
Psalhyrotes Schr>ttii A. Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 206. 1874.
Inyonia dysodioides M. K. Jones. Con'r. W. Hot. 8: 42. 1898.
Peucephyllum .Schottii latitelum I M Johnston. Proc. Calif. Acad. IV. 12: 1212. 1924.
A shrub 1-3 m. high, glabrous, much branched; leave* filiform, itibterete, 1-2 cm. long, lew than 1 mm. thick; involucre al«>ut I cm. high and brood; bractl about 1 mm. broad,
• I'eucephyllum is an abnormal (emu in tintribe Senici ioneak and probably should be trans(erred to Astekeae, next t'> Ericamtria. linear-subulate, attenuate, hirsutulous with flat hairs; corollas yellow, the tube I mm. long, the throat 6-7 mm. long, the lobes triangular, 0.5 mm. long; anthers 4 mm. long; style-branches 2 mm. long; achenes 3.5 mm. long; pappus-bristles 4 mm. long, tawny.
Type locality: Diluvial banks of the Colorado River in Sonora.
Distribution: Southern California and Nevada to Arizona, Sonora, and Lower California.
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- Per Axel Rydberg. 1927. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; LIABEAE, NEUROLAENEAE, SENECIONEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 34(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
