Comprehensive Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por North American Flora
Musineon lineare (Rydb.) Mathias, Ann. Mo. Bot Gard. 17: 265. 1930.
Aletes ? lenuifolia Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7: 108. 1900. Not Musineon tenu.ifoliu.rn
Nutt. 1840. nor Coult. & Rose. 1930. Daucophyllum lineare Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club. 40: 69. 1913.
Plants subcaulescent, subcespitose, 8-25 cm. high, the stems glabrous, slender, lax, usually longer than the leaves; leaves narrowly oblong in general outline, excluding the petioles 2-5 cm. long, about 2 cm. broad, pinnate, the leaflets linear, acute, 10-35 mm. long, about 1-2 mm. broad, distinct; petioles 3-14 cm. long; involucel conspicuous, subdimidiate, the bractlets distinct, linear-lanceolate, acute, greatly exceeding the yellow flowers; rays several, 2-5 mm. long; fruit ovoid-oblong, 3-4 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, minutely scaberulous, the oil-tubes 2-4 in the intervals, 6-8 on the commissure.
Type locality: Near Logan. Utah. Rydberg.
Distribution: Known only from the region of the type locality (Shear 3162, C. P. Smith 2337).
- citação bibliográfica
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
