View source for Pectis glaucescens

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|accepted_name=Pectis glaucescens
|accepted_authority=(Cassini) D. J. Keil
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=11: 386. 1986
|year=1986
}}
|common_names=Sand dune chinchweed
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Chthonia glaucescens
|authority=Cassini
|rank=species
|publication_title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|publication_place=2, 9: 173. 1817
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pectis leptocephala
|authority=(Cassini) Urban
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pectis lessingii
|authority=Fernald
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Pectidinae;Pectis;Pectis glaucescens
|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 Pectidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pectis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pectis glaucescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 224, 226
|treatment_page=page 225
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, 2–50 cm (across or high); herbage spicy-scented. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to erect, usually sparsely to densely puberulent (sometimes in decurrent lines), sometimes glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> narrowly linear, 10–35 × 0.2–1.8 mm, margins with 1–5 pairs of setae 1–2 mm, faces glabrous (abaxial submarginally dotted with broadly elliptic to circular oil-glands 0.2–0.3 mm, sometimes with additional, scattered oil-glands). <b>Heads</b> borne singly or in diffuse, cymiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> filiform, (3–)7–35(–54) mm. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric. <b>Phyllaries</b> distinct, linear-oblanceolate, 4–5 × 0.8–1 mm (dotted with 1–2 elliptic, subapical oil-glands 0.2–0.3 mm, sometimes with additional, smaller submarginal or scattered oil-glands). <b>Ray</b> florets 5; corollas 3.5–5 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 3–7; corollas 2–3 mm (2-lipped). <b>Cypselae</b> 2.5–3 mm, strigillose; pappi of 0–5, antrorsely scabrid bristles or slender scales 1–2 mm plus 0–5 entire or irregularly lacerate scales 0.2–0.7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year round.
|habitat=Sandy or gravelly soils, grassy areas, openings in pinelands, scrub, roadsides
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Bahamas;Hispaniola;Jamaica).
|discussion=<p><i>Pectis glaucescens</i> is widespread in southern Florida and the Bahamas. Human disturbances, especially road constructions, have created habitats suitable for it. It grows most commonly on limestone soils in open, grassy sites. Occasionally, it is a lawn weed.</p>
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name=Pectis glaucescens
|authority=(Cassini) D. J. Keil
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Pectis leptocephala;Pectis lessingii
|basionyms=Chthonia glaucescens
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering year round.
|habitat=Sandy or gravelly soils, grassy areas, openings in pinelands, scrub, roadsides
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Bahamas;Hispaniola;Jamaica).
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1986
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Pectidinae
|genus=Pectis
|species=Pectis glaucescens
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