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Ragged Marsh Elder

Hedosyne ambrosiifolia (A. Gray) Strother

Description

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Leaves: petioles 5–12(–45) mm; blades 3–5(–9) × 4–5(–8) cm overall, lobes 1–3 mm wide. Peduncles 3–12+ mm. Involucres 2–3+ mm. Phyllaries: outer 5 sparsely strigose or glabrous. Paleae 1–1.5 mm. Functionally staminate florets: corollas 1.5–2 mm. Cypselae 1.4–1.7 mm. 2n = 36.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 21: 30, 31 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Synonym

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Euphrosyne ambrosiifolia A. Gray, Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 102. 1852 (as ambrosiaefolia); Cyclachaena ambrosiifolia (A. Gray) Rydberg; Iva ambrosiifolia (A. Gray) A. Gray
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 21: 30, 31 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Comprehensive Description

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Cyclachaena lobata Rydberg, sp. nov
An annual; stem reddish, sparingly hispid, striate; lower leaves unknown; upper leaves mostly pinnately 5-lobed; petioles slightly winged, 5-10 mm. long; blades 1-2 cm. long, thin, sparingly hispid and granuliferous on both sides; lobes and sinuses rounded, the former entire or sparingly crenate; heads numerous, in branched panicles; involucre hemispheric, 4 mm. broad; bracts 5, ovate, acute, hispidulous, the hairs with pustulate bases; paleae subtending the pistillate flowers broadly obovate, concave, nearly 2 mm. long; those subtending the staminate flowers narrowly cuneate, erose at the apex; achenes cuneate in outline, somewhat flattened, tuberculate, 1.5 mm. long, black.
Type collected at Monterey, Nuevo Leon, August 1911, Bro.G. Arsene 6103 (Bro. Abbon 208) (U.S.Nat. Herb. no. 1003085).
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Per Axel, Rydberg. 1922. CARDUALES; AMBROSIACEAE, CARDUACEAE. North American flora. vol 33(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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