Tagetes stenophylla
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Tagetes stenophylla | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Tagetes |
Species: | T. stenophylla
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Binomial name | |
Tagetes stenophylla B.L.Rob. 1907
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Tagetes stenophylla is a Mexican species of marigold in the family Asteraceae. It has been found in the States of Guerrero, Jalisco, Morelos, Michoacán, and México State in western and central Mexico.[1]
Tagetes stenophylla is a hairless, branching perennial herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. Leaves are highly divided, up to 4 cm (1.6 inches) long, the leaves high on the stem reduced to branching threads. The plant one flower head per flower stalk, are yellow, each head containing 5 ray florets surrounding numerous disc florets.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Turner, B. L. 1996. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 6. Tageteae and Athemideae. Phytologia Memoirs. 10: i–ii, 1–22, 43–93
- ^ Rydberg, Per Axel 1913. in Britton, Nathaniel Lord, North American Flora 34: 153