Perityle megalocephala |
Perityle quinqueflora |
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bighead rockdaisy, large head rock daisy, limestone rockdaisy, Nevada Rock daisy |
five-flower rock daisy |
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Habit | Perennials or subshrubs, 15–55 cm (often dense, profusely branched clumps, sparsely leafy); densely hirtellous. | Plants 7–30 cm (often densely leafy); usually glabrate or puberulent, sometimes hirtellous. | ||||
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 5–8(–12) mm; blades reniform to cordate, 8–20(–33) × 8–20(–33) mm, margins subentire, dentate-toothed, or shallow-lobed. |
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Peduncles | 10–45(–80) mm. |
2–10(–15) mm. |
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Involucres | campanulate. |
cylindric to narrowly campanulate. |
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Ray florets | 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. |
5–6(–8); corollas yellow, tubes 1–1.3 mm, throats tubular, 2–2.3(–2.8) mm, lobes 0.5–1 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 14–20, lanceolate to suboblanceolate, 5–6 × 1.3–1.9 mm. |
5–6, linear-lanceolate, 5–6(–9) × (1–)1.3–1.7 mm. |
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Heads | borne singly or (2–3) in loose, corymbiform arrays, 6–9(–10) × 5–6(–8) mm. |
in corymbiform arrays, 7–8(–9) × 2–3 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. |
1.9–2(–2.9) mm; pappi of 25–30 bristles 0.6–2.5(–3.5) mm. |
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2n | = 34. |
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Perityle megalocephala |
Perityle quinqueflora |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | |||||
Habitat | Crevices of limestone (rarely igneous) rock in high canyons, bluffs, and caprock | |||||
Elevation | 1200–2500 m (3900–8200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; NV
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NM; TX |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Perityle quinqueflora grows in mountains of west-central trans-Pecos Texas and adjacent New Mexico. Possibly P. quinqueflora and the similar P. rupestris var. rupestris have both evolved from a widespread common ancestor resembling P. cernua. (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. 318. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Laphamia | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Pappothrix | ||||
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Synonyms | Laphamia megalocephala | Laphamia quinqueflora, Pappothrix quinqueflora | ||||
Name authority | (S. Watson) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 39. (1918) | (Steyermark) Shinners: SouthW. Naturalist 4: 205. (1959) | ||||
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