Perityle megalocephala |
Perityle aglossa |
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bighead rockdaisy, large head rock daisy, limestone rockdaisy, Nevada Rock daisy |
bluff rock daisy, rayless rock daisy |
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Habit | Perennials or subshrubs, 15–55 cm (often dense, profusely branched clumps, sparsely leafy); densely hirtellous. | Perennials or subshrubs, 15–45 cm (in rock crevices); glandular-pubescent. | ||||
Leaves | petioles 1–6 mm; blades usually elliptic, lanceolate, lance-ovate, ovate, or suborbiculate, sometimes linear, 4–8(–15) × 1–10(–12) mm, margins entire, irregularly and sparsely serrate, or serrate-lobed. |
petioles 8–23 mm; blades ovate, subcordate, or subdeltate, 6–20 × 5–25 mm, margins irregularly lobed, laciniate, serrate-dentate, or shallowly 3-lobed. |
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Peduncles | 10–45(–80) mm. |
10–25 mm. |
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Involucres | campanulate. |
campanulate. |
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Ray florets | 0. |
0. |
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Disc florets | 45–60; corollas yellow, tubes 1–1.6 mm, throats tubular to subfunnelform, 1.6–2.2 mm, lobes 0.4–0.7 mm. |
20–60; corollas yellow, often pink or purple tinged, tubes 1–1.7 mm, throats tubular, 2.1–3.2 mm, lobes 0.4–0.6 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 14–20, lanceolate to suboblanceolate, 5–6 × 1.3–1.9 mm. |
14–24, linear to linear-lanceolate, (5–)6–10 × 0.5–1 mm, apices long-attenuate. |
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Heads | borne singly or (2–3) in loose, corymbiform arrays, 6–9(–10) × 5–6(–8) mm. |
borne singly or (2–3) in corymbiform arrays, 8–11 × 4–8 mm. |
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Cypselae | narrowly oblanceolate to suboblanceolate, 2.5–3 mm, margins thin-calloused, short-hairy; pappi 0, or of single bristles. |
oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, (1–)2–3.2 mm, margins prominently calloused, densely ciliate; pappi of 1(–2) antrorsely barbellate bristles 3.5–6 mm plus crowns of hyaline, laciniate scales. |
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2n | = 34. |
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Perityle megalocephala |
Perityle aglossa |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | |||||
Habitat | Limestone rock crevices | |||||
Elevation | 600–1300 m (2000–4300 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; NV
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TX; Mexico (Coahuila) |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Perityle aglossa is consistently discoid and occurs in limestone crevices along and near the Rio Grande in Brewster and Terrell counties. A combination of subtle characteristics including shallower leaf lobing, narrower shape and more attenuate apices of the phyllaries, shorter cypselae, and proportionally longer pappus bristles distinguish these plants from the rayless ones of P. parryi. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 326. | FNA vol. 21, p. 323. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Laphamia | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Perityle | ||||
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Synonyms | Laphamia megalocephala | Laphamia aglossa | ||||
Name authority | (S. Watson) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 39. (1918) | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 107. (1853) | ||||
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