Gomphrena sonorae

Torrey in W. H. Emory

in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 181. 1859.

Common names: Sonoran globe-amaranth
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 453. Mentioned on page 451.

Plants perennial or annual, not cespitose, 1.5–6 dm; roots primary, woody or fibrous. Stems erect or ascending, sparsely pilose, glabrate. Leaves sessile or petiolate; petiole to 0.9 cm; blade green, elliptic, oblong, oblanceolate, or linear, 3–10 × 0.5–1.2 cm, sparsely pilose. Inflorescences: heads white, globose, 0.8–1.3 mm diam., subtended by 2 leaves; bractlets white, not crested. Flowers: tube densely lanose proximally; perianth lobes white, oblong, 3.5–4 mm, hyaline, apex rounded to emarginate. Utricles ovoid, 2.2 mm, apex acute. Seeds 1–1.5 mm.


Phenology: Flowering late summer–winter.
Habitat: Sandy slopes, open woodlands, scrub, dry streambeds
Elevation: 900-1800 m

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... more about "Gomphrena sonorae"
acute;rounded;emarginate +
Steven E. Clemants +
Torrey in W. H. Emory +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
linear +, oblanceolate +, oblong +  and elliptic +
not fleshy +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
not crested +
Sonoran globe-amaranth +
Ariz. +, N.Mex. +  and Mexico +
900-1800 m +
peripheral +
hypogynous +
minute +  and small +
not +  and dehiscent +
Sandy slopes, open woodlands, scrub, dry streambeds +
0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br />) +
globose +
axillary +  and terminal +
petiolate +  and sessile +
long-pilose +
hyaline +  and white +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
Flowering late summer–winter. +
in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. +
fibrous +  and woody +
brown +, reddish-brown +  and black +
subglobose +  and ovoid +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
ascending +  and erect +
glabrate +  and pilose +
filiform +  and subulate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
Gomphrena sonorae +
Gomphrena +
species +
indurate +, membranaceous +, chartaceous +  and scarious +
2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br /> (?) +
membranous +
annual +  and perennial +
plant +  and not cespitose +