Palafoxia feayi A.Gray

Feay's palafox (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Palafoxia

Characteristics

Perennials or subshrubs, 100–300 cm. Stems strigillose to nearly glabrous, not stipitate-glandular. Leaf blades narrowly elliptic, broadly oblong, or ovate, 20–60 × 5–25 mm. Involucres campanulate or broadly to narrowly turbinate. Phyllaries 5–9 × 1–1.5 mm, ± equal, ± strigillose. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 15–30; corollas ± actinomorphic, 10–14 mm, throats ± cylindric, longer than lobes. Cypselae 6–8 mm; pappus scales of inner cypselae 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 24.
Life form perennial
Growth form subshrub
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Palafoxia feayi world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:236363-1
WFO ID wfo-0000016840
COL ID 4C322
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Synonyms

Palafoxia feayi