Pectis leptocephala (Cass.) Urb.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Glabrous or nearly so; stems slender, diffusely branched, 1-4 dm. high. Leaves narrowly linear, 1-3 cm. long, less than 1 mm. wide, acute, bearing a few bristles below the middle; heads filiform-peduncled, mostly solitary; involucre narrow, 4-5 mm. high, its bracts linear; aehenes narrow, about 3 mm. long; pappus of subulate-lanceolate scales.
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Distribution
Limestone soil, Andros, New Providence : Florida : Cays of northern Cuba ; Hispaniola. Recorded by Mrs. Northrop, by Dolley and by Hitchcock as P. Unifolia Xj. Narrow-leaved Pectis. Wrongly called Pennyroyal.
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