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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Acourtia nana
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) Reveal & R. M. King
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=27: 230. 1973
|year=1973
}}
|common_names=Desert holly;dwarf desertpeony
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Perezia nana
|authority=A. Gray
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Mutisieae;Acourtia;Acourtia nana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Mutisieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Acourtia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Acourtia nana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 73
|treatment_page=page 74
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>2.5–30 cm, (divaricately branching). <b>Leaves</b> cauline; sessile; blades rhombic-orbiculate to suborbiculate, 10–50 mm, bases cuneate, margins coarsely and irregularly prickly-dentate, faces glabrous (reticulate). <b>Heads</b> borne singly (at branch tips). <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 14–17 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4 series, broadly ovate, margins glandular, apices acute to mucronate, abaxial faces glabrous. <b>Receptacles</b> reticulate (sockets separated by squarish, apically pubescent paleae 1 mm). <b>Florets</b> 15–24; corollas lavender-pink or white, 10–17 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> subcylindric, 3–7.5 mm, densely stipitate-glandular; pappi white or tawny, 10–15 mm. <b>2n</b> = 54.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)Apr(–Jun).
|habitat=Gravel, sandstone, silty, or caliche soils in desert scrub
|elevation=0–1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Sonora;Zacatecas).
|discussion=<p><i>Acourtia nana</i> grows primarily in the trans-Pecos and western Edwards Plateau.</p>
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name=Acourtia nana
|author=
|authority=(A. Gray) Reveal & R. M. King
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Perezia nana
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)Apr(–Jun).
|habitat=Gravel, sandstone, silty, or caliche soils in desert scrub
|elevation=0–1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Sonora;Zacatecas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1973
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Mutisieae
|genus=Acourtia
|species=Acourtia nana
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