Perityle megalocephala |
Perityle bisetosa |
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bighead rockdaisy, large head rock daisy, limestone rockdaisy, Nevada Rock daisy |
two-bristle 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, 2–12 cm; glabrate, glabrous, minutely hairy, or scabrous-hispidulous. | ||||||||||||
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 (0–)1–7 mm; blades lanceolate, lance-ovate, ovate, or suborbiculate, 4–8 × 2–8 mm, margins entire, serrate, or shallow-lobed. |
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Peduncles | 10–45(–80) mm. |
0–3 mm. |
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Involucres | campanulate. |
narrowly 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. |
11–17; corollas white, tubes 0.8–1 mm, throats tubular to subfunnelform, 1.5–3 mm, lobes 0.8–1 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 14–20, lanceolate to suboblanceolate, 5–6 × 1.3–1.9 mm. |
8–10(–12), linear to broadly or narrowly lanceolate, 4.5–6 × 1–2 mm. |
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Heads | borne singly or (2–3) in loose, corymbiform arrays, 6–9(–10) × 5–6(–8) mm. |
usually borne singly (often obscured by the dense leaves), 7–8(–10) × 3.5–7 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 oblanceolate, 1.8–2.2(–2.5) mm, margins notably calloused, glabrous; pappi of 2–3(–5) ± flattened bristles 1.5–2.3 mm. |
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Perityle megalocephala |
Perityle bisetosa |
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Distribution |
CA; NV
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TX; Mexico |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 4 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 326. | FNA vol. 21, p. 325. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Laphamia | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Laphamia | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Laphamia megalocephala | Laphamia bisetosa | ||||||||||||
Name authority | (S. Watson) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 39. (1918) | (Torrey ex A. Gray) Shinners: SouthW. Naturalist 4: 204. (1959) | ||||||||||||
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