Eryngium haenkei Presl. ex DC.

Eryngium spiculosum Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. pi. 2507. 1897
Slender, caulescent, glabrous perennials (?), 10 dm. high, the stems erect, branching; basal leaves thin, oblong to obovate, 5-15 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. broad, long-cuneate at the base, obtuse at the apex, callousmargined, crenate-serrate, the venation pinnately reticulate; petioles slender, sheathing at the base, 2-5 cm. long, shorter than the blades" upper cauline leaves sessile, broad, mostly opposite, palmately parted with lanceolate lobes; inflorescence divaricately trifurcate, the lateral branches elongated to form a monochasium, the heads small, numerous, pedunculate, the flowers numerous, pedicellate (?); heads globose-ovoid, 6-7 mm. long, 5-6 mm. broad; bracts 5 (-8?), reflexed, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 12-25 mm. long, 2-4 mm. broad, pungent, entire, green beneath and green or whitish toward the base above, exceeding the heads; bractlets subulate, 3-4 mm. long, entire, exceeding the fruit; coma of 1 or 2 bractlets, 10-15 mm. long; sepals ovate, 1.5 mm. long, obtuse, mucronulate, the margins scarious; petals oblanceolate, about 1 mm. long; styles slender, exceeding the sepals; fruit globose or a little longer than broad, 2-3 mm. long, densely covered with fleshy, papillose, setiform scales.
Type locality: Mexico, Ocampo.
Distribution: Guerrero (Pringle 10,344).