Flora of North America species comparison

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Lessingia micradenia

little glandular lessingia, Mt. Tamalpais lessingia
Habit Plants 5–60 cm.
Stems

erect, tan to brown, glabrous.
Leaves

basal withering before flowering;

cauline margins entire, faces usually eglandular, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous.
Involucres

cylindric to narrowly obconic, 4–6 mm.
Disc florets

3–10;

corollas white to pale lavender (color more intense in tubes);

style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.1–0.3 mm.
Phyllaries

purple-tipped, faces glabrous, stipitate-glandular or gland-dotted;

inner scarious.
Heads

borne ± singly, at ends of branchlets.
Pappi

tan, equal to or shorter than cypselae.

Lessingia micradenia
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Phyllaries stipitate-glandular
var. micradenia
1. Phyllaries not stipitate-glandular (sessile-glandular)
var. glabrata
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 456.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Lessingia
Sibling taxa
L. arachnoidea, L. germanorum, L. glandulifera, L. hololeuca, L. leptoclada, L. nana, L. nemaclada, L. pectinata, L. ramulosa, L. tenuis, L. virgata
Subordinate taxa
L. micradenia var. glabrata, L. micradenia var. micradenia
Synonyms L. ramulosa var. micradenia
Name authority Greene: Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit 2: 28. (1910)
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