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calyptocarpus

Habit Perennials, to 30 cm.
Stems

prostrate to decumbent, branched throughout.

Leaves

cauline; opposite;

petiolate;

blades (± 3-nerved) deltate to ovate or lanceolate, bases cuneate to truncate, margins toothed, faces ± scabrellous.

Involucres

obconic, 3–8 mm diam.

Receptacles

convex, paleate (paleae persistent, scarious).

Ray florets

3–8, pistillate, fertile;

corollas pale yellow.

Disc florets

10–20, bisexual, fertile;

corollas yellow, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes 4–5, ± deltate.

Phyllaries

persistent, 5 in 1(–2) series (linear to lanceolate, herbaceous).

Heads

radiate, borne singly (in axils).

Cypselae

compressed or flattened, cuneate (faces often tuberculate);

pappi persistent, of 2(–5+) stout awns.

x

= 12.

Calyptocarpus

Distribution
from USDA
Mexico; Central America; s United States
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 2 (1 in the flora).

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

Source FNA vol. 21, p. 133. Author: John L. Strother.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae
Subordinate taxa
C. vialis
Name authority Lessing: Syn. Gen. Compos., 221. (1832)
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