Gomphrena pringlei Coult. & Fisch.

Gomphrena pringlei Coult. & Fisher, Bot. Gaz. 17: 349. 1892
Gomphrena decumbens Pringlei Stuchlik, Repert. Sp. Nov. 11: 156. 1912.
Prostrate or procumbent annual, much branched throughout; stems slender, 5-12 cm. long, rather sparsely appressed-pilose; leaves numerous, subsessile, the blades narrowly oblong, oblanceolate, or ovate-oblong, 1-2 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, acute, acutish at the base, green, sparsely appressed-pilose on both surfaces; spikes terminal, solitary, each subtended by usually 2 ovate-oblong sessile leaves, subglobose, 7-10 mm; in diameter; bracts ovate-triangular, acuminate, white; bractlets 3-4 mm. long, one and one half times as long as the bracts, white, subcoriaceous, broadly cristate at the apex, the irregularly and acutely dentate crest as broad as the bractlet, gradually narrowed below and extending nearly to the base of the bractlet; perianth nearly as long as the bractlets, lanate below, the linear lobes white, acute or acutish, often dentate; stamen-tube exserted; style elongate, the stigmas filiform; seed subglobose, 1 mm. long, brown, shining.
TyfB locality: State of Mexico. Distribution: State of Mexico.