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Feay's palafox

coastal plain palafox

Habit Perennials or subshrubs, 100–300 cm. Subshrubs or shrubs, 30–150 cm.
Stems

strigillose to nearly glabrous, not stipitate-glandular.

strigillose to glabrate, not stipitate-glandular.

Leaf

blades narrowly elliptic, broadly oblong, or ovate, 20–60 × 5–25 mm.

blades lanceolate to linear, 25–90 × 2–13 mm.

Involucres

campanulate or broadly to narrowly turbinate.

broadly turbinate.

Ray florets

0.

0.

Disc florets

15–30;

corollas ± actinomorphic, 10–14 mm, throats ± cylindric, longer than lobes.

10–26;

corollas ± actinomorphic, 7–13 mm, throats ± funnelform, shorter than lobes.

Phyllaries

5–9 × 1–1.5 mm, ± equal, ± strigillose.

8–11 × 1–3.5 mm, unequal, glabrous or glabrate.

Cypselae

6–8 mm;

pappus scales of inner cypselae 1.5–2 mm.

5–6 mm;

pappus scales of inner cypselae 4–7 mm.

2n

= 24.

= 24.

Palafoxia feayi

Palafoxia integrifolia

Phenology Flowering (spring–)late summer–fall. Flowering (spring–)late summer–fall.
Habitat Sandy soils Sandy soils
Elevation 0–10 m (0–0 ft) 0–50+ m (0–200+ ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL
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FL; GA
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 390. FNA vol. 21, p. 390.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Palafoxia Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Palafoxia
Sibling taxa
P. arida, P. callosa, P. hookeriana, P. integrifolia, P. reverchonii, P. riograndensis, P. rosea, P. sphacelata, P. texana
P. arida, P. callosa, P. feayi, P. hookeriana, P. reverchonii, P. riograndensis, P. rosea, P. sphacelata, P. texana
Synonyms Polypteris integrifolia
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 59. (1877) (Nuttall) Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 369. (1842)
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