Flora of North America species comparison

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Haploësthes
Habit Perennials or subshrubs, 10–80 cm (± succulent).
Stems

erect to sprawling, branched from bases or throughout.
Leaves

cauline; opposite;

sessile;

blades filiform to linear, margins entire, faces glabrous or glabrescent.
Involucres

obconic, 2.5–5+ mm diam.
Receptacles

convex, epaleate.
Ray florets

3–6, pistillate, fertile;

corollas yellow.
Disc florets

18–30(–60)[–100+], bisexual, fertile;

corollas yellow, tubes shorter than or equaling cylindric or funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate to lance-deltate.
Phyllaries

persistent, 4–5 in 1 series (lance-elliptic to ovate or orbiculate, membranous to subscarious).
Heads

radiate, (5–25) in corymbiform arrays.
Cypselae

± cylindric (10–15-ribbed);

pappi persistent, of 20–25+ barbellulate bristles.
x

= 18.

Haploësthes
Distribution
sw United States; Mexico
Discussion

Species 3 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 245. Author: John L. Strother.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Flaveriinae
Subordinate taxa
Haploësthes greggii
Name authority Haploësthes A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 109. (1849)
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