View source for Psilocarphus tenellus

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|accepted_name=Psilocarphus tenellus
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|place=7: 341. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|common_names=Slender woolly marbles
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae;Psilocarphus;Psilocarphus tenellus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Psilocarphus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Psilocarphus tenellus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 457, 458, 460
|treatment_page=page 459
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>greenish to grayish, arachnoid to ± sericeous. <b>Stems</b> (1–)2–10, ascending to ± prostrate; proximal internode lengths mostly 1–2(–3) times leaf lengths. <b>Capitular</b> leaves ± spreading, mostly not appressed to heads, spatulate to obovate, widest in distal 1/3, longest 6–15 mm, lengths mostly 2–5 times widths, 1.5–2.5(–3) times head heights. <b>Heads</b> ± spheric, largest 3–5.5 mm. <b>Receptacles</b> unlobed. <b>Pistillate</b> paleae individually visible through indument, longest mostly 1.5–2.7 mm. <b>Staminate</b> corollas 0.8–1.5 mm, lobes mostly 5. <b>Cypselae</b> narrowly obovoid, somewhat compressed, 0.7–1.2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting late Mar–early Aug.
|habitat=Dry or seasonally moist, barren to wooded slopes, flats, often disturbed sites (foot paths, road beds, burns), sometimes near vernal pools toward s
|elevation=0–2100 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p>Psilocarphus tenellus is relatively common in the Californian Floristic Province from northwestern Baja California to southwestern Oregon; northward it is scattered to northern Idaho and Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It has been of conservation concern in Canada (J. M. Illingworth and G. W. Douglas 1994b).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Psilocarphus tenellus
|author=
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting late Mar–early Aug.
|habitat=Dry or seasonally moist, barren to wooded slopes, flats, often disturbed sites (foot paths, road beds, burns), sometimes near vernal pools toward s
|elevation=0–2100 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|publication year=1840
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae
|genus=Psilocarphus
|species=Psilocarphus tenellus
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