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HYMENOXYS

Mark W. Bierner


Annual to perennial herb, 5–150 cm.
Stem: erect, unbranched or branched, green to ± red-purple, glabrous or ± hairy.
Leaf: basal and cauline, alternate, simple, entire or 1–2-pinnately lobed or divided, ultimate margins entire or toothed, glabrous or hairy, ± gland-dotted.
Inflorescence: heads radiate [discoid], 1 or in panicle-like or ± flat-topped clusters; peduncle expanded distally, glabrous or ± hairy; disk ± hemispheric to spheric, bell-shaped or urn-shaped; involucre ± rotate; phyllaries in 2[3] series, generally unequal, outer basally fused, inner free; receptacle conic to ovoid, hemispheric or ± spheric [flat], pitted, epaleate.
Ray flower: [3]8–26[34+], pistillate; corolla generally yellow or yellow-orange to orange, ray fan-shaped, 3(5)-lobed.
Disk flower: 25–150(400+), bisexual [6–15, staminate]; corolla yellow; anther tip triangular; style tips truncate.
Fruit: ± narrowly obpyramidal [obconic], generally 5-angled, glabrous or hairy; pappus of generally obovate, generally awn-tipped scales [0].
25 species: w North America, South America. (Greek: sharp membrane, from pappus) [Bierner 2006 FNANM 21:435–443] Hymenoxys acaulis moved to Tetraneuris.
Unabridged references: [Bierner 2001 Lundellia 4:37–63]

Key to Hymenoxys

1. Lf entire — outer phyllaries >= 11 mm, inner >= 7.5 mm ..... H. hoopesii

1' Lf entire or 1–2-pinnately divided into linear lobes

2. Annual ..... H. odorata

2' Biennial or perennial herb

3. Biennial or perennial herb, (1)2–8(10) dm, flowering once; stems 1–3(15); leaf ± hairy ..... H. cooperi

3' Perennial 3–5 dm, flower > once; stems 3–10(15); leaf glabrous or sparsely hairy ..... H. lemmonii

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