Syngonanthus androsaceus (Griseb.) Ruhland

Syngonanthus androsaceus (Griseb.) Ruhl. Symb. Ant. 1 : 488
1900.
Paepalanthus androsaceus Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 225. 1866. Paepalanthus androsaceus var. flavescens Griesb. Cat. PI. Cub. 225. 1866.
Stems very short; leaves densely tufted, olivaceous-green, membranous, linear, mostly about 3 cm. long and 1 mm. wide, plane, straight, subacute, sparsely puberulent on both surfaces with very short and obscure glanduliferous hairs, the venation mostly not prominent beneath or only the midrib more or less prominulent; peduncles aggregate, 2-16, mostly rather few, 2.5-11 cm. long, 6-costate, puberulent with short subappressed hairs; sheaths rather close-fitting, about half as long as the leaves, striatulate, twisted, very sparsely or even obscurely puberulent, the blade elongate and conspicuously acuminate; heads hemispheric, 3-6 mm. in diameter, loose-flowered; involucral bractlets flavescent, obovate, acute; receptacular bractlets none; staminate florets: long-pedicellate; sepals 3, obovate, acute, sparsely ciliolate; pistillate florets: sepals 3, flavidulous, ciliate, similar to those of the staminate florets, but narrower; petals 3, thin-membranous or subhyaline, obovate, acute, ciliate, connate-margined at the middle; style short
Type locality: Western Cuba (C. Wright 3235).
Distribution: In wet sandy pinelands and savannas, Pinar del Rio, Cuba.