Tagetes stenophylla

Tagetes stenophylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Tagetes
Species: T. stenophylla
Binomial name
Tagetes stenophylla
B.L.Rob. 1907

Tagetes stenophylla is a Mexican species of marigolds in the sunflower family. It has been found in the States of Guerrero, Jalisco, Morelos, Michoacán, and México State in western and central Mexico.[1]

Tagetes stenophylla is a hairless, branching perennial herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. Leaves are highly divided, up to 4 cm (1.6 inches) long, the leaves high on the stem reduced to branching threads. The plant one flower head per flower stalk, are yellow, each head containing 5 ray florets surrounding numerous disc florets.[2]

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. Rydberg, Per Axel 1913. in Britton, Nathaniel Lord, North American Flora 34: 153
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