Tauschia linearifolia Coult. & Rose

Tauschia linearifolia Coult. & Rose, Proc. Wash. Acad 1: 138. 1900.
Acaulescent or short-caulescent from a thickened taproot, 15-30 cm. high, glabrous throughout; leaves broadly linear in general outline, excluding the petioles 5-20 cm. long, 3-7 mm. broad, simple and entire, acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, the margins revolute, the venation parallel; petioles 3-7 cm. long; peduncles 15-25 cm. long; involucre wanting, or of a single foliaceous bract; involucel of several ovate to orbicular, acuminate, purplish, reticulate bractlets, 3-4 mm. long, shorter than the flowers and fruit; fertile rays 3-6, stout, subequal, 4-7 mm. long; fertile pedicels stout, subequal, 1-2 mm. long, shorter than the sterile; calyxteeth minute; fkwers unknown; styles short, spreading; carpophore 2-cleft to the base, the halves divergent for their upper third, to form a Y, the tips slightly incurved; fruit ovoid, tapering at the apex, 5-6 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, with a V-shaped depression at the commissure, the ribs evident but very narrow, acute; oil-tubes very small, several in the intervals and on the commissure; seedface deeply sulcate.
Type locality: "In a swamp on top of the west range of the Sierra Madre near the little Indian hamlet of Santa Gertrudis," Nayarit, Rose 2104.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.