Isocoma acradenia

Herbage usually glabrous, sometimes minutely hispidulous, often stipitate-glandular, often resinous. Leaf blades oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 20–150 mm, margins entire or toothed or lobed (teeth or lobes apically rounded-obtuse). Involucres 5–8 × 5–7 mm. Phyllary apices yellowish to greenish yellow, sometimes spinulose-aristate, usually not gland-dotted, usually with single, strongly developed, subepidermal resin pocket nearly as wide as bracts, sometimes a central pocket and 2+ smaller, lateral ones (resin pockets sometimes formed from numerous, coalesced, sessile glands). Florets 12–27; corollas 5–7(–8) mm. Cypsela ribs not forming apical horns.

Distribution

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sw United States, nw Mexico.

Discussion

isocoma acradenia is distinctive in its whitish stems and narrow, whitish-indurate phyllaries with an apical resin pocket (or pockets). the leaves often occur in axillary fascicles

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Isocoma acradenia var. acradenia, Isocoma acradenia var. bracteosa, Isocoma acradenia var. eremophila

Key

1	Leaves 50–150 mm; florets 20–27; phyllaryapices spinulose-aristate	Isocoma acradenia var. bracteosa
1	Leaves 20–50 mm; florets 12–24; phyllary apices usually rounded, not spinulose, sometimes with weakly developed aristae	> 2
2	Leaves usually entire, proximal rarely toothed or lobed	Isocoma acradenia var. acradenia
2	Leaves all toothed to pinnatifid	Isocoma acradenia var. eremophila