Pectis uniaristata var. holostemma A. Gray

Pectis dichotoma Klatt, Leopoldina 20: 92. 1884
Pedis jaliscana Hcmsl. Biol. Ccntr. Am. Bot. 4: 225. in part. 1881. Pedis uniariilata hnh^lemma A. Gray, Prtx?. Am. Acad. 19: 46. 1883.
Pedii filipes Schullz-Hip,; Fcrnald, Proc. Am. Acad. 33: 75, as synonym. 1897. Not P. filipes Harv. & Gray. 1849.
An erect annual; stem 0.5-1.5 dm. high, dichotomously branched; leaves linear or oblanceolate-linear, submucronate, 1-2 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, with 2-4 pairs of bristles towards the base; glands in 2-4 rows; heads in leafy cymes; peduncles 1-2 cm. long; involucre 3-4 mm. high, nearly as broad, purplish; bracts linear, acute, only slightly carinate; ray-flowers 5; ligules 1.5-2 mm. long; disk-flowers 3-5; corollas less than 2 mm. long; achenes 2 mm. long, glabrate or short-hispid; pappus of a crown of short united squamellae.
Type locality: Consoquitlo, Mexico. Distribution: Southern Mexico to Guatemala.