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Bebbia juncea

Distribution
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AZ; CA; NM; NV; TX; UT; n Mexico
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (1 in the flora).

M. Whalen (1977) recognized two varieties of Bebbia juncea: var. aspera, which occurs in the flora area and in northern Mexico, and var. juncea, which occurs in Mexico (Baja California and Baja California Sur). Variety juncea has generally broader, obtuse, rounded or apiculate, ovate to elliptic phyllaries.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 21, p. 177.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Galinsoginae > Bebbia
Subordinate taxa
B. juncea var. aspera
Synonyms Carphephorus junceus
Name authority (Bentham) Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 180. (1885)
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