Biology:Chrysactinia acerosa

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Short description: Species of plant in the family Asteraceae native to Mexico

Chrysactinia acerosa
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Chrysactinia
Species:
C. acerosa
Binomial name
Chrysactinia acerosa
S.F.Blake

Chrysactinia acerosa is a Mexican species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the states of Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí of northeastern Mexico.[1][2][3]

Chrysactinia acerosa is a small evergreen subshrub rarely more than 20 cm (8 inches) tall. It is branched, with very narrow, needle-like leaves. Flower heads have yellow ray flowers and yellow disc flowers. Achenes are black. The species grows in dry locations in desert regions.[3][4]

References

  1. Turner, B. L. 1996. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 6. Tageteae and Athemideae. Phytologia Memoirs 10: i–ii, 1–22, 43–93.
  2. Strother, J. L. 1977. Taxonomy of Chrysactinia, Harnackia, and Lescaillea (Compositae: Tageteae). Madroño 24: 129–139.
  3. 3.0 3.1 José Luis Villaseñor y María del Rosario Redonda–Martínez. 2009. El género Chrysactinia (Asteraceae, tribu Tageteae) en México. Revista mexicana de biodiversidad 80(1) in Spanish with line drawings and distribution maps
  4. Blake, Sydney Fay 1916. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 51(10): 524-525 description in Latin, commentary and short description in English

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q15595272 entry