Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Asteraceae
Asteraceae
Description:
Species Description - Annual; stem quadrangular, erect, branched, 0.2-2 m. high. Leaves thin, petioled, 1-3-pinnately dissected into ovate or oblong, toothed or lobed segments; heads usually numerous, long-peduncled, 4-8 mm. broad; involucre narrow, its outer bracts linear, ascending, nearly as long as the broader erect inner ones; rays 34, yellow, short, sometimes none; achenes curved, linear, 4-angled, narrowed upward, 7-17 mm. long, the outer ones commonly shorter than the inner; pappus of 4-6 downwardly barbed, slightly spreading awns, much shorter than the achene.
Species Description - Annual; stem quadrangular, erect, branched, 0.2-2 m. high. Leaves thin, petioled, 1-3-pinnately dissected into ovate or oblong, toothed or lobed segments; heads usually numerous, long-peduncled, 4-8 mm. broad; involucre narrow, its outer bracts linear, ascending, nearly as long as the broader erect inner ones; rays 34, yellow, short, sometimes none; achenes curved, linear, 4-angled, narrowed upward, 7-17 mm. long, the outer ones commonly shorter than the inner; pappus of 4-6 downwardly barbed, slightly spreading awns, much shorter than the achene.
Distribution:
New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| West Indies|
New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| West Indies|