Acourtia runcinata |
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desert paeonia, featherleaf desertpeony |
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Habit | Plants 5–35 cm. |
Leaves | basal; petioles 0.5–9 cm; blades oblong-oblanceolate, 2.5–23 cm, bases cuneate, margins pinnately lobed (lobes ovate), spinulose-dentate, apices acute, faces hirtellous and/or finely stipitate-glandular. |
Involucres | turbinate, 14–17 mm. |
Receptacles | reticulate, hispidulous. |
Florets | 25–53; corollas pink or lavender-pink, 12–22 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 2–4 series, lanceolate to subulate (3–15 mm), margins glandular-hairy, apices acuminate, abaxial faces glandular. |
Heads | borne singly or 2–3 together (on scapiform peduncles). |
Cypselae | fusiform to linear-fusiform, 4–8 mm, stipitate-glandular and/or hispidulous; pappi tan or white, 1–17 mm. |
2n | = ca. 54. |
Acourtia runcinata |
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Phenology | Flowering year round (mostly Mar–Aug). |
Habitat | Juniper forests, oak woodlands, dry matorral, desert scrub on calcareous, sandy clay, and gypsiferous soils |
Elevation | 0–1600 m (0–5200 ft) |
Distribution |
TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas)
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Discussion | Acourtia runcinata is the most widespread species of the genus, within which it is unique in possessing fasciculate, tuberous-fusiform roots. In the flora, it grows in central and southwestern Texas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 73. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Mutisieae > Acourtia |
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Synonyms | Clarionia runcinata |
Name authority | (D. Don) B. L. Turner: Phytologia 38: 460. (1978) |
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