View source for Kyhosia ← Kyhosia 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=Kyhosia |accepted_authority=B. G. Baldwin |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Novon |place=9: 465. 1999 |year=1999 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Madiinae;Kyhosia |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 Madiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Kyhosia]]</div></div> |etymology=For Donald William Kyhos, b. 1929, Californian botanist |volume=Volume 21 |mention_page=page 255, 296, 297, 300, 303 |treatment_page=page 295 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 50–120 cm (rhizomatous; self-incompatible). <b>Stems</b> (aerial) erect. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline (at flowering); proximal opposite (basalmost in rosettes), distal alternate; sessile; blades lance-linear to linear, margins entire, faces hirsute and (distal leaves) glandular-hirtellous. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly or in loose, ± corymbiform arrays. <b>Peduncular</b> bracts: pit-glands, tack-glands, and/or spines 0. <b>Involucres</b> ± campanulate to hemispheric, 6–12+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 8–12 in 1 series (each mostly or wholly enveloping a ray ovary, lanceolate to lance-linear, herbaceous, abaxially hirsute and glandular-hirtellous). <b>Receptacles</b> flat to convex, glabrous, paleate (paleae falling, in 1 series between rays and discs, weakly connate or distinct). <b>Ray</b> florets 8–12, pistillate, fertile; corollas bright yellow. <b>Disc</b> florets 28–65, bisexual and fertile; corollas bright yellow, pubescent, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate (anthers ± dark purple; styles glabrous proximal to branches). <b>Ray</b> cypselae (black) compressed, clavate (arcuate, basal attachments centered, apices beakless, faces glabrous or hispidulous); pappi 0, or coroniform. <b>Disc</b> cypselae (brown to black) ± terete (straight or arcuate, faces hispidulous, otherwise similar to rays); pappi of 5–10 (stramineous to purplish) lanceolate to subulate, ciliate to plumose scales. <b>x</b> = 6.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=w United States. |discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!-- --><p>Kyhosia has been treated as congeneric with Madia, which is evidently more closely related to the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Argyroxiphium, Dubautia, and Wilkesia) than to Kyhosia (B. G. Baldwin 1996). Head architecture is similar in Kyhosia and Argyroxiphium, as noted by S. Carlquist (1959). Kyhosia is the only perennial tarweed with 2n = 12.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Kyhosia |author=Bruce G. Baldwin;John L. Strother |authority=B. G. Baldwin |rank=genus |parent rank=subtribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Asteraceae |illustrator=Barbara Alongi |distribution=w United States. |reference=None |publication title=Novon |publication year=1999 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_723.xml |tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae |subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Madiinae |genus=Kyhosia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Madiinae]] 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) Return to Kyhosia.