Chrysactinia lehtoae

Chrysactinia lehtoae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Genus: Chrysactinia
A.Gray
Binomial name
Chrysactinia lehtoae
D.J.Keil

Chrysactinia lehtoae, is a Mexican species of flowering plants in the sunflower family. It is native to northwestern Mexico, found only in pine-oak forests in northern Sinaloa[1][2][3]

Chrysactinia lehtoae is a small, branching, evergreen subshrub up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall. Leaves are pinnately lobed. Flower heads have yellow ray flowers and yellow-green disc flowers.[3][4]

References

  1. 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.
  2. Strother, J. L. 1977. Taxonomy of Chrysactinia, Harnackia, and Lescaillea (Compositae: Tageteae). Madroño 24: 129–139.
  3. 1 2 José Luis Villaseñor y María del Rosario Redonda–Martínez. 2009. El género Chrysactinia (Asteraceae, tribu Tageteae) en México. Revista mexicana de biodiversidad 80(1) in Spanish with line drawings and distribution maps
  4. Keil, David John 1976. Madroño 23: 374


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