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ARIDA

David R. Morgan


Annual [per] from taproot, or subshrub.
Leaf: simple, alternate, entire to deeply pinnately lobed; teeth or lobes often ± bristle-tipped.
Inflorescence: heads radiate or discoid, 1 or in cyme-like clusters; involucre obconic, bell-shaped, or hemispheric; phyllaries graduated in 2–5[8] series, persistent, spreading or reflexed in fruit, proximally generally straw-colored, distally green; receptacle convex, shallowly pitted, glabrous, epaleate.
Ray flower: 0 or 25–35; corolla white to lavender [blue].
Disk flower: 12–45; corolla yellow; anther tip lanceolate; style tips triangular to linear.
Fruit: narrowly oblong, several- to many-ribbed, moderately to densely appressed-hairy; pappus of many unequal bristles ( ray pappus occasionally 0), generally ± white.
9 species: sw North America. (Latin: dry, from habitat) [Hartman & Bogler 2006 FNANM 20:401–405]
Unabridged references: [Morgan & Hartman 2003 Sida 20:1387–1416]

Key to Arida

1. Ray flowers present ..... A. arizonica

1' Ray flowers 0 ..... A. carnosa

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