Zexmenia brevifolia

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HERBARIUM OF
THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
Plants of MEXICO
Zexmenia brevifolia A. Gray
CHIHUAHUA: In gravelly soil in thorn-scrub
desert ca 7 km north of Carmargo. Elevation
ca 1300 m.
Much-branched shrubs up to about 8 dm tall.
Heads yellow; rays (9-) 11-15 (16), 6-9
mm long. Achenes radially compressed,
wing-margined, the wings rounded-auriculate
at the summit. Pappus a pair of awn-scales,
distinct from the wings, and some inter-
mediate short scales.
Arthur Cronquist 11722 26 September 1980