View source for Palafoxia ← Palafoxia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Palafoxia |accepted_authority=Lagasca |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Gen. Sp. Pl., |place=26. 1816 |year=1816 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae;Palafoxia |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>[[Palafoxia]]</div></div> |etymology=For General José Palafox, 1776–1847, Spanish patriot |volume=Volume 21 |mention_page=page 364, 365, 392 |treatment_page=page 388 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, 10–80(–150+) cm. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched (mostly distally). <b>Leaves</b> cauline; opposite (proximal) or alternate (mostly); petiolate or sessile; blades (1- or 3-nerved) broadly lanceolate to linear, margins entire, faces sparsely to moderately scabrellous to strigillose or appressed-puberulent (hairs 0.1–0.8+ mm), not gland-dotted. <b>Heads</b> radiate, discoid, disciform, or radiant, in ± corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> narrowly cylindric or turbinate to hemispheric, 3–15+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent or falling (in fruit), 8–14 in 2–3 series (erect in flowering, reflexed in fruit, purplish, or whitish, linear to oblanceolate, subequal or unequal, herbaceous to membranous). <b>Ray</b> florets 0, or 3–13, pistillate, fertile; corollas white or pinkish to purplish. <b>Disc</b> florets 12–40(–90), bisexual, fertile; corollas pinkish to purplish or whitish (glabrous or sparsely hairy, sometimes stipitate-glandular), tubes shorter than cylindric throats or much longer than short, broadly funnelform throats, lobes 5, lance-linear or linear (equal or unequal). <b>Receptacles</b> flat, pitted or knobby, epaleate. <b>Cypselae</b> obpyramidal, 4-angled, densely to sparsely hairy (hairs straight); pappi usually persistent, of 4–10 rotund and callous-thickened, or spatulate to subulate, medially thickened, laterally scarious scales in 1–2 series (all, some, or none aristate, all alike or pappi of outer cypselae shorter, rarely 0). <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=s United States;Mexico. |discussion=<p>Species 12 (10 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Circumscriptions of species adopted here closely follow those of B. L. Turner and M. I. Morris (1976). Some of their circumscriptions, especially those of <i>Palafoxia callosa</i>, <i>P. rosea</i>, and <i>P. texana</i>, merit reconsideration and possibly different interpretations. Their infraspecific taxa are not formally recognized here.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=turner1976b |text=Turner, B. L. and M. I. Morris. 1976. Systematics of Palafoxia (Asteraceae: Helenieae). Rhodora 78: 567–628. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Ray florets 3–13 |[[#key-0-2| > 2]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Ray florets 0 (peripheral florets sometimes with enlarged, ± zygomorphic corollas) |[[#key-0-4| > 4]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Leaf blades narrowly lanceolate to linear, 2–6 mm wide; phyllaries 6–8 mm; cypselae 5–6 mm |[[Palafoxia reverchonii|Palafoxia reverchonii]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Leaf blades broadly to narrowly lanceolate, 3–25 mm wide; phyllaries 7–16+ mm; cypselae 6–9 mm |[[#key-0-3| > 3]] |-id=key-0-3 |3 |Stems usually stipitate-glandular ± throughout; phyllaries mostly 3–5 mm wide; ray corollas 10–20 mm, laminae 9–14 mm |[[Palafoxia hookeriana|Palafoxia hookeriana]] |-id=key-0-3 |3 |Stems stipitate-glandular only distally (mainly on peduncles), if at all; phyllaries mostly 1.5–3 mm wide; ray corollas 15–25 mm, laminae 5–8(–12) mm |[[Palafoxia sphacelata|Palafoxia sphacelata]] |-id=key-0-4 |4 |Corolla throats ± cylindric, longer than lobes |[[#key-0-5| > 5]] |-id=key-0-4 |4 |Corolla throats ± funnelform, shorter than lobes |[[#key-0-6| > 6]] |-id=key-0-5 |5 |Perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs; leaf blades narrowly elliptic to ovate; phyllaries 5–9 mm; cypselae 6–8 mm |[[Palafoxia feayi|Palafoxia feayi]] |-id=key-0-5 |5 |Annuals (rarely persisting); leaf blades narrowly lanceolate to linear; phyllaries 10–25 mm; cypselae 10–16 mm |[[Palafoxia arida|Palafoxia arida]] |-id=key-0-6 |6 |Perennials (rhizomatous); phyllaries unequal (outer shorter) |[[Palafoxia integrifolia|Palafoxia integrifolia]] |-id=key-0-6 |6 |Annuals (rarely persisting, becoming ± shrubby, not rhizomatous); phyllaries ± equal |[[#key-0-7| > 7]] |-id=key-0-7 |7 |Involucres ± cylindric; phyllaries 10–15 mm; corollas of outer florets ± zygomorphic |[[Palafoxia riograndensis|Palafoxia riograndensis]] |-id=key-0-7 |7 |Involucres ± turbinate to campanulate; phyllaries 3–10 mm; corollas of all florets ± actinomorphic |[[#key-0-8| > 8]] |-id=key-0-8 |8 |Phyllaries 3–5 mm; corollas 5–6 mm; pappus scales mostly 0.3–1 mm |[[Palafoxia callosa|Palafoxia callosa]] |-id=key-0-8 |8 |Phyllaries 5–10 mm; corollas 7–10 mm; pappus scales (1.5–)3–8 mm |[[#key-0-9| > 9]] |-id=key-0-9 |9 |Leaf blades narrowly lanceolate to linear, 2–6(–12) mm wide; phyllar-ies usually stipitate-glandular |[[Palafoxia rosea|Palafoxia rosea]] |-id=key-0-9 |9 |Leaf blades mostly lanceolate, (5–)10–20 mm wide; phyllaries rarely stipitate-glandular |[[Palafoxia texana|Palafoxia texana]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Palafoxia |author=John L. Strother |authority=Lagasca |rank=genus |parent rank=subtribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Asteraceae |illustrator=Linda Ann Vorobik |distribution=s United States;Mexico. |reference=turner1976b |publication title=Gen. Sp. Pl., |publication year=1816 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_976.xml |tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae |subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae |genus=Palafoxia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Asteraceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Palafoxia.