Stevia serrata

Cavanilles

Icon. 4: 33, plate 355. 1797.

Common names: Saw-tooth candyleaf
Synonyms: Stevia serrata var. haplopappa B. L. Robinson Stevia serrata var. ivifolia (Willdenow) B. L. Robinson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 485. Mentioned on page 484.

Perennials, 40–100 cm. Leaves mostly alternate (at least not regularly opposite, crowded, with axillary clusters of smaller leaves); petioles 0; blades (3-nerved) narrowly lanceolate to lance-linear, 1.5–4 cm, margins serrulate. Heads borne in ± congested, compact clusters. Peduncles 0 or 1–4 mm, sessile-glandular, villous-puberulent. Involucres 5–6 (–7) mm. Phyllaries sessile-glandular, sparsely villosulous, apices acute to acuminate. Corollas white or pink, lobes sparsely sessile-glandular, finely villous-hirsute. Pappi usually ± equaling corollas, sometimes coroniform or 0.2n = (22–) 34 (–54) univalents, less often 17 pairs.


Phenology: Flowering (Jul–)Aug–Oct.
Habitat: Roadsides, disturbed sites, oak-grasslands, oak-pine grasslands, and oak, mixed conifer-oak, mixed pine, ponderosa pine-Douglas fir, pine-fir-aspen, spruce-Douglas fir, and fir-hemlock woodlands
Elevation: 1700–2700 m

Distribution

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Ariz., N.Mex., Tex., Mexico

Discussion

Some collections of Stevia serrata from Cochise and Graham counties, Arizona, were annotated by J. L. Grashoff as “S. serrata > plummerae”; in leaf arrangement and morphology (venation, margin, and shape), they appear to be similar to typical S. serrata from the same area.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Stevia serrata"
not tailed +, truncate +, rounded +  and obtuse +
acute;acuminate +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually terete +  and clavate +
spiciform +, racemiform +, paniculiform +  and corymbiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Guy L. Nesom +
Cavanilles +
decurrent +
enlarged +
3-nerved +  and 1-nerved +
dissected +, lobed +, toothed +  and entire +
narrowly lanceolate;lance-linear +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
papillate +  and rugose +
(4-)5-angled;10-ribbed +
filiform +
Saw-tooth candyleaf +
pink +  and white +
scabrellous +
columnar +  and prismatic or fusiform +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Ariz. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +  and Mexico +
1700–2700 m +
glabrous +, glabrescent +, puberulent +  and hirtellous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Roadsides, disturbed sites, oak-grasslands, oak-pine grasslands, and oak, mixed conifer-oak, mixed pine, ponderosa pine-Douglas fir, pine-fir-aspen, spruce-Douglas fir, and fir-hemlock woodlands +
in usually determinate , rarely indeterminate , arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
each +  and sessile +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
villous-hirsute +
lanceolate +  and lance-linear +
toothed +  and serrulate +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
coroniform +
villous-puberulent +
Flowering (Jul–)Aug–Oct. +
subequal +  and unequal +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
convex;flat +
0 +  and 5 +
muticous +
exalbuminous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +
papillate +
Stevia serrata var. haplopappa +  and Stevia serrata var. ivifolia +
Stevia serrata +
species +
40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +
17 +, 12 +  and 11 +