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ca 5 mm long, wingless, pubescent, the pappus a short narrow crown of 

 scales ca 0.7 mm high. 



Strother (1991) recognized specimens from Jal as belonging to this 

 taxon, but these appear to belong to a distinct species, W. cronquistii 

 (Turner 1992a,b). 



WEDELIAHTNTONIORUM B. L. Turner, Phytologia 65: 352. 1988. 



sw Mex and e Gue, pine-oak forests, 2000-2300 m; Jun-Aug. 



Perennial herbs to 25 cm high; stems suffruticose erect or recumbent 

 from a woody, corm-like, root or crown; leaves 1.3-3.0 cm long, 3-7 

 mm wide; petioles absent or nearly so (0-1 mm long); blades narrowly 

 ovate to oblanceolate, weakly 3-nervate, hispidulous above and below, 

 the margins somewhat serrulate apically; heads single on peduncles 3-12 

 mm long; involucres 8-12 mm high, 2-3 seriate, the bracts subequal, the 

 outermost 3-5, mostly linear-oblanceolate, leaf-like; receptacular bracts 

 linear-lanceolate in outline, 3-fid, about as long as the florets; ray florets 

 8, the ligules reportedly salmon-colored but drying white, 6-9 mm long; 

 disk florets ca 30, ca 5 mm long, glabrous. 



This species superficially resembles W. grayi and W. mexicana; it 

 differs from both in possessing nearly sessile, hispidulous leaves. 



WEDELIAHISPIDAH.B.K., Nov. Gen. & Sp. 4: 216. 1820. 

 Aspilia potosina Brandegee 

 Lipochaeta texana Torrey & Gray 

 Seruneum hispidum (H.B.K.) Kuntze 

 Viguiera longipes J. Coulter 

 Viguiera pauciflora Brandegee 

 Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida (H.B.K.) Strother 

 Wirtgenia texana (Torrey & Gray) Sch.-Bip. 

 Zexmenia hispida (H.B.K.) A. Gray 

 Zexmenia texana (Torey. & Gray) A. Gray 



