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Egletes viscosa (L.) Less.

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In the flora area, Egletes viscosa is known only from Cameron County, southernmost Texas. It grows in Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and coastal localities in other Mexican states.
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Plants aromatic, densely viscid with stipitate-glandular trichomes, mixed with much longer, translucent, non-glandular hairs 1–3 mm . Stems erect to decumbent. Leaf blades sublyrate to pinnatifid, 20–70(–120) mm . Ray laminae elliptic-obovate, 0.5–0.8(–1.6) mm wide. Disc corollas 1.2–1.5 mm. Cypselae 1.2–1.7 mm, short-stipitate-glandular; pappi uneven rings. 2n = 54.
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Synonym

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Cotula viscosa Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 892. 1753; Egletes viscosa var. dissecta Shinners
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Egletes viscosa

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Egletes viscosa, the erect tropical daisy,[3] is a New World species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across much of South America, Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies, just barely crossing the US border into the southernmost county in Texas (Cameron County).[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Egletes viscosa is an annual, aromatic herb up to 60 cm (2 feet) tall, covered with glandular and non-glandular hairs. One plant can produce several flower heads, each with white or pale blue ray florets and yellow disc florets.[11]

References

  1. ^ The Plant List, Egletes viscosa (L.) Less.
  2. ^ Tropicos, Egletes viscosa (L.) Less.
  3. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Egletes viscosa". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  4. ^ Balick, M. J., M. H. Nee & D.E. Atha. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 85: i–ix, 1–246
  5. ^ Moraes R., M. 1990. Lista preliminar de especies botánicas coleccionadas durante la Expedición Río Madre de Dios (Norte de Bolivia). Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Bolivia) Comunicación 10: 32–52.
  6. ^ Carnevali, G., J. L. Tapia-Muñoz, R. Duno de Stefano & I. M. Ramírez Morillo. 2010. Flora Ilustrada de la Peninsula Yucatán: Listado Florístico 1–326
  7. ^ Dodson, C.H., A.H. Gentry & F.M. Valverde Badillo. 1985. La Flora de Jauneche: Los Ríos, Ecuador 1–512. Banco Central del Ecuador, Quito
  8. ^ Martínez Salas, E. M., M. Sousa Sánchez & C. H. Ramos Álvarez. 2001. Región de Calakmul, Campeche. Listados Florísticos de México 22: 1–55
  9. ^ Hokche, O., P. E. Berry & O. Huber. (eds.) 2008. Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela 1–859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela, Caracas
  10. ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  11. ^ Flora of North America, Tropical daisy, Egletes viscosa (Linnaeus) Lessing
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Egletes viscosa: Brief Summary

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Egletes viscosa, the erect tropical daisy, is a New World species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across much of South America, Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies, just barely crossing the US border into the southernmost county in Texas (Cameron County).

Egletes viscosa is an annual, aromatic herb up to 60 cm (2 feet) tall, covered with glandular and non-glandular hairs. One plant can produce several flower heads, each with white or pale blue ray florets and yellow disc florets.

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