Biology:Xanthisma gracile

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Xanthisma gracile
Xanthisma gracile by Andrey Zharkikh.jpg

Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Xanthisma
Species:
X. gracile
Binomial name
Xanthisma gracile
(Nutt.) D.R.Morgan & R.L.Hartm.
Synonyms[1]
  • Aster dieteria Kuntze
  • Dieteria gracilis Nutt.
  • Eriocarpum gracile (Nutt.) Greene
  • Haplopappus gracilis (Nutt.) A.Gray
  • Haplopappus ravenii R.C.Jacks.
  • Machaeranthera gracilis (Nutt.) Shinners
  • Sideranthus gracilis (Nutt.) A.Nelson

Xanthisma gracile[2] is a species of annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names slender goldenweed[3] and annual bristleweed.[4]

Range and habitat

It is native the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in the deserts and plateaus.

Growth pattern

It is a bristly annual herb growing erect up to 45 cm tall.

Leaves and stems

The oval or oblong leaves are 1–3 cm long and divided into lobes or teeth tipped with bristles.

Flowers and fruit

The inflorescence bears one or more flower heads lined with pointed, roughly hairy phyllaries. The head has a center of many yellow disc florets and a fringe of 16 to 18 yellow ray florets roughly a centimeter long. The fruit is a woolly achene 2 to 3 millimeters long tipped with a pappus.

Genetics

Xanthisma gracile has extra chromosomes that do not have any functional genes (B chromosomes), and about which little is known.[4]

References

  1. "Xanthisma gracile". Species. GBIF. http://www.gbif.org/species/3150453. 
  2. Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd Ed. p. 314
  3. "Machaeranthera gracilis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=MAGR10. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 218

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q15571877 entry