Psilocarphus Nuttall (Q2695)

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Psilocarphus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Gnaphalieae
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Psilocarphus Nuttall
Psilocarphus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Gnaphalieae

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    taxon/id/Psilocarphus Nuttall
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    Psilocarphus Nuttall
    Psilocarphus
    Nuttall
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Woolly marbles (English)
    woollyheads (English)
    Amphitropical
    w North America
    nw Mexico
    s South America
    Stems 1, erect, or 2–10, ascending to ± prostrate.
    blades linear to ovate or obovate.
    Heads borne singly or in glomerules of 2–4 in ± dichasiform (sometimes ± paniculiform) arrays.
    Receptacles ± obovoid (sometimes lobed, heights 1–2 times diams.), glabrous.
    Pistillate paleae falling, radiating in all directions;
    bodies with 5+ nerves (nerves reticulate, prominent), obovoid to ± cylindric, saccate most of lengths (terete, galeate or cucullate, each loosely enclosing a floret);
    wings inflexed (± lateral).
    Staminate paleae 0.
    Pistillate florets (8–) 20–100+.
    Functionally staminate florets 2–10;
    corolla lobes 4–5, ± equal.
    Bisexual florets 0.
    Cypselae brown, monomorphic: terete to ± compressed, narrowly obovoid (then slightly incurved, abaxially gibbous) to ± cylindric, faces glabrous, smooth, shiny;
    corolla scars usually ± subapical;