Almutaster Á. Löve & D. Löve (Q2140)

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Almutaster is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Astereae
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Almutaster Á. Löve & D. Löve
Almutaster is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Astereae

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    taxon/id/Almutaster Á. Löve & D. Löve
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    Almutaster Á. Löve & D. Löve
    Almutaster
    Á. Löve & D. Löve
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 20: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 7: Asteraceae, part 2. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Aster (English)
    North America
    Mexico
    Stems (1–4), ascending to erect, simple, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely pilose proximally, densely stipitate-glandular distally.
    basal ± petiolate, cauline sessile;
    blades 1-nerved, linear to oblong-spatulate (basal), or linear-lanceolate to linear, margins entire, revolute, faces glabrous or (distal) densely stipitate-glandular.
    Heads radiate, usually in paniculiform (sometimes appearing corymbiform) arrays, sometimes borne singly.
    Involucres campanulate, 4.5–8 × 8–14 mm.
    Phyllaries 22–44 in 3–4 series, 1-nerved (nerve translucent, flat), usually lance-oblong to lanceolate, sometimes ovate, subequal, membranous, margins scarious, (apices darker green, acute, mucronulate) abaxial faces densely short-stipitate-glandular.
    Receptacles flat to slightly convex, pitted, epaleate.
    Ray-florets 15–30 (–45) in 1 series, pistillate, fertile;
    corollas white to pale-purple (coiling at maturity).
    Disc-florets 40–50, bisexual, fertile;
    corollas yellow, slightly ampliate, tubes shorther than tubular throats, lobes 5, erect, triangular;
    style-branch appendages lanceolate.
    Cypselae fusiform-obconic, terete, 7–10-nerved (nerves thin), faces glabrous to sparsely strigose;
    pappi of 30–40, stramineous, subequal, barbellate, apically attenuate bristles in 1 series.