View source for Lorandersonia pulchella

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Lorandersonia pulchella
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) Urbatsch
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=21: 1624. 2005
|year=2005
}}
|common_names=Southwestern rabbitbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Linosyris pulchella
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication_place=3(5): 96. 1852
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chrysothamnus pulchellus
|authority=(A. Gray) Greene
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chrysothamnus pulchellus subsp. elatior
|authority=(Standley) H. M. Hall & Clements
|rank=subspecies
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Lorandersonia;Lorandersonia pulchella
|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 pulchella]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 178, 179
|treatment_page=page 180
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 80–120 cm. <b>Stems</b> single, greenish when young, becoming whitish to gray, fastigiately branched distal to middle (angled from leaf bases), glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> ascending to appressed; blades linear or linear-oblong, 10–40 × 1–2.5 mm, planar or adaxially concave, margins eciliate, midveins evident, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous. <b>Heads</b> in cymiform to corymbiform arrays 0.5–14 cm wide, sometimes borne singly. <b>Involucres</b> obconic to cylindric, 10–12 × 4–6 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 24–30 in 4–5 series, in 5 vertical ranks, mostly tan, green subapical patch shiny, midnerves evident in distal 1/2, keeled, ovate to oblong or lanceolate, 1.3–9 × 0.7–2 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, margins narrowly scarious, entire apices acute to attenuate or acuminate, faces glabrous. <b>Receptacles</b> with 0–2 scales ca. 0.5 mm. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets 5; corollas 9–12 mm, glabrous, lobes 1–1.5 mm; style branches 4.5–6 mm, appendages attenuate, 1.7–2.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> brownish, turbinate, sharply 4-angled, 4.5–6.3 mm, 5–8 ribbed, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy; pappi yellowish tan (± flattened, barbellate), 9–11 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Dry hills and plains, often sandy sites
|elevation=1500–2000 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Lorandersonia pulchella
|authority=(A. Gray) Urbatsch
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Chrysothamnus pulchellus;Chrysothamnus pulchellus subsp. elatior
|basionyms=Linosyris pulchella
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Dry hills and plains, often sandy sites
|elevation=1500–2000 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=2005
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_392.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Lorandersonia
|species=Lorandersonia pulchella
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