Porophyllum

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Asteraceae

• Scientific Name

  Porophyllum

• Description

  Description - Herbs, or some species shrubby, glanduliferous, glabrous and often glaucous. Leaves alternate, or the lower opposite, toothed or entire. Heads corymbose or solitary, long-stalked. Involucre narrowly campanulate or cylindrie, its bracts 5-9. Receptacle small, not chaffy. Ray-flowers none. Disk flowers perfect and fertile; corollas with a slender tube and narrowly campanulate limb. Achenes linear, many-striate, glabrous or pubescent. Pappus of copious capillary roughish bristles in 1 or 2 series. [Greek, porose-leaved.] About 25 species, of warm-temperate and tropical America, the following typical.