Perityle cuneata Brandeg.

Perityle cuneata Brand. Zoe 1 : 54. 1890
An erect annual; stem 4-7 dm. high, glandular-pubescent; leaves petioled, the lower opposite, the upper alternate; petioles 1-2 cm. long; blades broadly ovate, truncate or subcordate at the base, irregularly serrate, glandular-puberulent, comparatively thick, 2-4 cm. long; peduncles 1-5 cm. long; involucre hemispheric, 6-8 mm. high, 10-11 mm. broad; rayflowers 12-15; ligules yellow, oblong, 3-crenate, 6-8 mm. long; disk-corollas glandular-puberulent, shorter than the achenes; achenes oblanceolate-cuneate, short-hirsute on the callous margin; pappus of 2 broad lacerate squamellae about one fifth, and two scabrous awns scarcely half as long as the achene.
Type locality: Sierra de Laguna, near Todos Santos, Lower California. Distribution: Lower California.