Psilocarphus tenellus Nuttall (Q2699)

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

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    taxon/id/Psilocarphus tenellus Nuttall
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    Psilocarphus tenellus Nuttall
    Psilocarphus tenellus
    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 tenellus
    psilocarphe grĂȘle (French)
    slender woollyheads (English)
    slender woolly-marbles (English)
    Slender woolly marbles (English)
    1 reference
    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    Mexico (Baja California)
    Flowering and fruiting late Mar–early Aug.
    wooded slopes
    disturbed sites
    foot paths
    road beds
    barren to wooded slopes
    disturbed sites ( foot paths
    road beds
    burns )
    near vernal pools
    0–2100 m
    Plants greenish to grayish, arachnoid to ± sericeous.
    Stems (1–) 2–10, ascending to ± prostrate;
    proximal internode lengths mostly 1–2 (–3) times leaf lengths.
    Capitular leaves ± spreading, mostly not appressed to heads, spatulate to obovate, widest in distal 1/3, longest 6–15 mm, lengths mostly 2–5 times widths, 1.5–2.5 (–3) times head heights.
    Heads ± spheric, largest 3–5.5 mm.
    Receptacles unlobed.
    Pistillate paleae individually visible through indument, longest mostly 1.5–2.7 mm.
    Staminate corollas 0.8–1.5 mm, lobes mostly 5.
    Cypselae narrowly obovoid, somewhat compressed, 0.7–1.2 mm.