Lepidospartum burgessii
Wrightia 5: 354. 1977.
Endemic
Shrubs, 10–70 cm, broomlike. Flowering-stems silvery-pannose, dotted with glandular blisters. Leaf-blades (flowering-stems) filiform to acerose, 3–20+ (× ca. 1) mm. Peduncles 0–3+ mm. Involucres turbinate to cylindric, 7–8 mm. Phyllaries 8–13, ovate to elliptic, pannose-tomentose. Florets 3; corollas 8–9.5 mm. Cypselae ca. 4 mm, 5-nerved, densely pilose; pappi 5–8 mm.
Phenology: Flowering late summer.
Habitat: Gypseous soils, desert basins
Elevation: 1100–1200 m
Discussion
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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