Acanthospermum hispidum |
Acanthospermum |
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hispid starbur, hispid starburr |
starbur, starburr |
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Habit | Plants 10–60+ cm. | Annuals (sometimes persisting), 10–60(–120) cm. | ||||||||
Stems | erect. |
erect to ± prostrate (repeatedly “forked”). |
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Leaves | blades rhombic-ovate to obovate, (20–)40–120(–150+) mm, faces finely pilosulous, gland-dotted. |
cauline; opposite; petiolate or ± sessile; blades mostly elliptic to deltate, rhombic, or ovate, sometimes lyrate, ultimate margins entire or toothed, faces usually pilosulous to sericeous or scabrellous, sometimes glabrate or glabrescent, usually gland-dotted. |
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Involucres | ± hemispheric, 3–5 mm diam. (becoming ± rotate in fruit). |
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Receptacles | convex, paleate (paleae cuneate to spatulate, ± conduplicate or flattish, membranous). |
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Ray florets | 5–8, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellowish (tubes shorter than to equaling laminae, laminae ovate to elliptic or linear). |
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Disc florets | 3–8(–12+), functionally staminate; corollas yellowish, tubes shorter than funnelform or campanulate throats, lobes 5, deltate. |
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Phyllaries | persistent (outer) or falling, 10–13 in 2 series (outer 4–6 herbaceous, inner 5–8 each investing a ray ovary, enlarging in fruit to form a perigynium, shed with enclosed cypsela). |
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Fruits | ± compressed, ± cuneate to obovate, 4–6+ mm, not notably ribbed, terminal spines 2, divergent, 3–4 mm, often 1 ± uncinate, prickles seldom notably uncinate, ± scattered. |
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Heads | radiate, 1(–3) in “forks” of branches (terminal, appearing axillary by sympodial growth). |
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Cypselae | each enclosed within and shed with an often hardened, ± prickly perigynium (the ultimate “fruits” plumply ellipsoid to fusiform, or ± compressed); pappi 0 or rudimentary. |
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x | = 11. |
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2n | = 22. |
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Acanthospermum hispidum |
Acanthospermum |
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Phenology | Flowering year round, mostly Aug–Oct. | |||||||||
Habitat | Disturbed, often sandy sites | |||||||||
Elevation | 0–100+ m (0–300+ ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; NJ; OR; SC; VA; ON; South America [Introduced in North America; also introduced in Mexico, West Indies, Central America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands (Hawaii)] |
mostly tropical to warm-temperate New World [Introduced in North America; also introduced in Old World] |
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Discussion | Species 6 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 37. | FNA vol. 21, p. 36. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Melampodiinae > Acanthospermum | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Melampodiinae | ||||||||
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Name authority | de Candolle: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 5: 522. (1836) | Schrank: Pl. Rar. Hort. Monac. 2: plate 53. (1820) | ||||||||
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