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|accepted_name=Acourtia runcinata
|accepted_authority=(D. Don) B. L. Turner
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=38: 460. 1978
|year=1978
}}
|common_names=Featherleaf desertpeony;desert paeonia
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Clarionia runcinata
|authority=Lagasca ex D. Don
|rank=species
|publication_title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|publication_place=16: 207. 1830
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Mutisieae;Acourtia;Acourtia runcinata
|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 runcinata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 74
|treatment_page=page 73
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>5–35 cm. <b>Leaves</b> basal; petioles 0.5–9 cm; blades oblong-oblanceolate, 2.5–23 cm, bases cuneate, margins pinnately lobed (lobes ovate), spinulose-dentate, apices acute, faces hirtellous and/or finely stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> borne singly or 2–3 together (on scapiform peduncles). <b>Involucres</b> turbinate, 14–17 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 2–4 series, lanceolate to subulate (3–15 mm), margins glandular-hairy, apices acuminate, abaxial faces glandular. <b>Receptacles</b> reticulate, hispidulous. <b>Florets</b> 25–53; corollas pink or lavender-pink, 12–22 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> fusiform to linear-fusiform, 4–8 mm, stipitate-glandular and/or hispidulous; pappi tan or white, 1–17 mm. <b>2n</b> = ca. 54.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year round (mostly Mar–Aug).
|habitat=Juniper forests, oak woodlands, dry matorral, desert scrub on calcareous, sandy clay, and gypsiferous soils
|elevation=0–1600 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Hidalgo;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p><i>Acourtia runcinata</i> is the most widespread species of the genus, within which it is unique in possessing fasciculate, tuberous-fusiform roots. In the flora, it grows in central and southwestern Texas.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Acourtia runcinata
|authority=(D. Don) B. L. Turner
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Clarionia runcinata
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering year round (mostly Mar–Aug).
|habitat=Juniper forests, oak woodlands, dry matorral, desert scrub on calcareous, sandy clay, and gypsiferous soils
|elevation=0–1600 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Hidalgo;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1978
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Mutisieae
|genus=Acourtia
|species=Acourtia runcinata
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