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Much resembling W. rosea but semiprostrate shrublets having heads 

 with lavender or purple rays and involucres 2-seriate, the outer series as 

 long as or longer than the inner series, not at all graduate. 



McVaugh (1984) noted that this taxon "may be merely a purple- 

 flowered form of Wedelia rosei" although he retained it as Aspilia 

 xylopoda. I know the species only by the type and several additional 

 collections (LL, TEX) from along hiway 40 at the Sin-Dur border. 

 Strother (1991) included this species within his broad concept of W. 



