Flora of North America species comparison

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Jaumea

jaumea
Habit Perennials, to 30+ cm (rhizomatous or stoloniferous).
Stems

sprawling, ascending, branched mostly from bases.
Leaves

opposite;

sessile;

blades spatulate to linear (succulent), margins entire, faces glabrous.
Involucres

cylindric to obconic, 4–8+ mm diam.
Receptacles

conic, epaleate.
Ray florets

[0] 3–10, pistillate, fertile;

corollas yellow.
Disc florets

20–50+, bisexual, fertile;

corollas yellow, tubes about equaling narrow, cylindric throats, lobes 5, deltate.
Phyllaries

12–15 in 3+ series (ovate to lanceolate, unequal, succulent to membranous).
Heads

radiate [discoid], borne singly.
Cypselae

obconic to clavate or columnar (10-ribbed, glabrous);

pappi usually 0, rarely persistent, of 1–5 subulate scales.
x

= 19.

Jaumea
Distribution
from USDA
w North America; nw Mexico; South America
[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. 253. Author: John L. Strother.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Jaumeinae
Subordinate taxa
J. carnosa
Name authority Persoon: Syn. Pl. 2: 397. (1807)
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