Hulsea nana
Hulsea
dwarf alpinegold, dwarf hulsea, little hulsea
alpinegold, hulsea
1–7, glandular-puberulent and sparsely lanate.
erect, simple or branched (aerial shoots often from subterranean caudices).
mostly basal;
blades narrowly spatulate, 2–6 cm, margins lobed or toothed (lobes or teeth mostly oblong), faces sparsely lanate to woolly;
distal cauline leaves narrowly lanceolate, much reduced.
basal or basal and cauline, proximally whorled, distally alternate; petiolate (at least basal) or sessile;
blades mostly lance-linear, oblanceolate, ovate, or spatulate, margins entire, lobed, or toothed, faces thinly lanate to densely woolly (hairs crisped, tangled, or matted, usually 0.8+ mm) and/or gland-dotted, glandular-puberulent, glandular-villous, or stipitate-glandular.
obconic, 8–12 mm diam.
obconic to hemispheric, 8–26 mm diam.
flat, knobby or pitted, epaleate.
12–30;
corolla tubes glabrous, laminae yellow, 6–10 mm.
9–60+, pistillate, fertile;
corollas yellow, orange, or red.
yellow.
20–200+, bisexual, fertile;
corollas yellow to orange (glabrous or sparsely hairy), tubes shorter than or about equaling cylindric throats, lobes 5, deltate to lance-ovate.
8–12 mm, outer narrowly obovate to oblong-lanceolate, apices acuminate to acute.
persistent, 14–35(–60+) in 2–4 series (reflexed in fruit, mostly lance-ovate to lanceolate or linear, herbaceous).
1.
radiate, borne singly or in corymbiform arrays.
6–8 mm;
pappus scales subequal, 1–2 mm.
clavate to linear, compressed (lenticular in cross section), silky-hairy;
pappi of 4 (distinct) quadrate to spatulate, equal, subequal, or unequal, erose to laciniate scales (the alternate alike).
= 19.
= 38.
Hulsea nana
Hulsea
Densely lanate or woolly plants of Hulsea nana are referable to var. larsenii. Such plants may occur in distinct populations but can be found together with sparsely lanate and strictly glandular plants. The distribution of lanate to woolly plants appears associated with higher levels of insolation.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Species 7 (7 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Basal and proximal cauline leaves gray to grayish green, lanate to woolly (hairs mostly eglandular) | → 2 |
1. Basal and proximal cauline leaves ± green, mostly glandular-puberulent or glandular villous (sometimes sparsely lanate as well, sometimes woolly in H. nana) | → 3 |
2. Leaves basal and cauline, blades broadly oblanceolate to spatulate, 6–10 cm; heads 2–5; cypselae 4–6 mm | H. californica |
2. Leaves mostly basal, blades spatulate, 1–9 cm; heads 1–2; cypselae 5–10 mm | H. vestita |
3. Leaves mostly basal (cauline none or relatively few); heads 1–2 (per basal leaf rosette) | → 4 |
3. Leaves mostly cauline (basal usually present as well); heads 3–5 | → 5 |
4. Plants (10–)20–40 cm; leaf margins sinuate, lobed, or toothed (lobes or teeth mostly triangular); phyllary apices acute to attenuate; ray florets 28–59 | H. algida |
4. Plants 5–15(–20) cm; leaf margins lobed (lobes mostly oblong); phyllary apices acuminate to acute; ray florets 12–30 | H. nana |
5. Ray laminae red to reddish purple (narrowly oblong to linear, ciliate) | H. heterochroma |
5. Ray laminae yellow (narrowly elliptic to narrowly lance-oblong) | → 6 |
6. Ray florets 10–23, corolla tubes hairy | H. brevifolia |
6. Ray florets 20–35, corolla tubes glabrous | H. mexicana |
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