Psilocarphus brevissimus Nuttall (Q2696)

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Psilocarphus brevissimus is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Psilocarphus
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Psilocarphus brevissimus Nuttall
Psilocarphus brevissimus is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Psilocarphus

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    taxon/id/Psilocarphus brevissimus Nuttall
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    Psilocarphus brevissimus Nuttall
    Psilocarphus brevissimus
    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
    Psilocarphus brevissimus
    dwarf woollyheads (English)
    short woollyheads (English)
    psilocarphe nain (French)
    Short woollyheads (English)
    Plants greenish to grayish, sericeous to densely lanuginose.
    Stems (1–) 2–10, erect to prostrate;
    proximal internode lengths mostly 0.5–1.5 (–2) times leaf lengths.
    Capitular leaves ± erect, appressed to heads (sometimes spreading), linear-lanceolate to ovate, widest in proximal 2/3, longest 8–25 mm, lengths mostly 1.5–6 times widths, 1–2.5 (–3) times head heights.
    Heads ± spheric, rarely ovoid, largest 6–14 mm.
    Receptacles unlobed or ± lobed.
    Pistillate paleae hidden by or visible through indument, longest 2.8–4 mm (lengths 1.5–6 times longest diams.; wings subapical to ± median).
    Staminate corollas 0.8–1.6 mm, lobes mostly 5.
    Cypselae narrowly obovoid, ± compressed, 0.8–1.9 mm. 2n = 28.