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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Lorandersonia microcephala
|accepted_authority=(Cronquist) Urbatsch
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=21: 1622. 2005
|year=2005
}}
|common_names=Smallhead heathgoldenrod
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Haplopappus microcephalus
|authority=Cronquist
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tonestus microcephalus
|authority=(Cronquist) G. L. Nesom & D. R. Morgan
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Lorandersonia;Lorandersonia microcephala
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lorandersonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lorandersonia microcephala]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 177, 178
|treatment_page=page 179
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> 5–20 cm (mat-forming); caudices woody. <b>Stems</b> 3–20+ (erect), green, simple (± ridged), sparsely stipitate-glandular, resinous. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, crowded near base of current year growth, mostly ascending; blades with midnerves prominent usually plus 2 evident, collateral veins, elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, 20–40 × 2–3.5 mm, flat to ± concave adaxially, margins entire, scarious, stipitate-glandular, apices acute, faces usually glabrous or stipitate-glandular, adaxially pustulate, gland-dotted and resinous along major nerves. <b>Heads</b> in corymbiform arrays 1–4 cm wide. <b>Involucres</b> obconic to subhemispheric, 6–8 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 24–30 in 3–4 series, green to tan, midnerves evident, ovate or lanceolate to elliptic, 3.5–7 × 0.7–1.3 mm, subequal, herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped (outer), usually chartaceous (inner), usually flat to convex, margins narrowly scarious, sometimes sparsely ciliate, apices attenuate to cuspidate (outer), acuminate to acute (inner), faces glabrous, resinous. <b>Receptacles</b> without scales. <b>Ray</b> florets 5–8; laminae elliptic to narrowly obovate, 3.5–5 × ca. 1 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 10–15; corollas 4.3–4.7 mm, glabrous, lobes 0.5–1 mm; style branches exserted, ca. 2.5 mm, appendages lanceolate, ca. 1.7 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan, oblong, 1.5–2.3 mm, 5–7 ribbed, faces moderately hairy; pappi tan (fine, barbellate), 3–5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Thin soils or cracks on granite outcrops
|elevation=2400–2700 m
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Lorandersonia microcephala
|author=
|authority=(Cronquist) Urbatsch
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Tonestus microcephalus
|basionyms=Haplopappus microcephalus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Thin soils or cracks on granite outcrops
|elevation=2400–2700 m
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=2005
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Lorandersonia
|species=Lorandersonia microcephala
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