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|accepted_name=Chaenactis xantiana
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=6: 545. 1865
|year=1865
}}
|common_names=Fleshy pincushion;fleshcolor pincushion;Xantus pincushion
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae;Chaenactis;Chaenactis sect. Chaenactis;Chaenactis xantiana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chaenactis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Chaenactis sect. Chaenactis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chaenactis xantiana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 408, 409, 412
|treatment_page=page 410
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>10–40 cm; proximal indument grayish, sparsely arachnoid, early glabrescent (usually glabrous by flowering). <b>Stems</b> mostly 1–5(–12); branches proximal and/or distal. <b>Leaves</b> basal (withering) and cauline, (1–)2–6 cm; largest blades linear or ± elliptic, ± plane or terete, ± succulent, 0–1-pinnately lobed; lobes 1–2(–5) pairs, remote, ± terete. <b>Heads</b> mostly 1–5(–7) per stem. <b>Peduncles</b> 1–5(–8) cm, glabrous (and ± expanded) distally. <b>Involucres</b> broadly obconic to campanulate. <b>Phyllaries</b>: longest 10–18 mm (surpassed by florets); outer distally tomentulose-puberulent in fruit (proximally glabrous, not stipitate-glandular), apices ± squarrose, blunt, pliant. <b>Florets</b>: corollas (diurnal) dirty-whitish to pinkish, 6–10 mm (± equal to cypsela lengths, anthers exserted); peripheral corollas erect to ascending, actinomorphic, scarcely enlarged. <b>Cypselae</b> 5–9 mm; pappi of 8 scales in 2, abruptly unequal series, longest scales 5–9 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Open, deep, loose sandy (rarely gravelly) soils, arid and semiarid shrublands, chaparral
|elevation=(100–)300–2500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.
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name=Chaenactis xantiana
|author=
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Open, deep, loose sandy (rarely gravelly) soils, arid and semiarid shrublands, chaparral
|elevation=(100–)300–2500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1865
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae
|genus=Chaenactis
|section=Chaenactis sect. Chaenactis
|species=Chaenactis xantiana
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