Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pectis caymanensis (Urban) Rydberg, sp. nov
Pedis cubensis Hitchc. Ann. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 101. 1893. Not P. cubensis Griseb. 1866.
Pedis cubensis caymanensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 282. 1907.
A diffusely branched annual, prostrate; branches 1-3 dm. long, glabrous, rooting at the base; leaves linear, 5-8 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. wide, usually acute and bristle-tipped, with 4—7 pairs of bristles, either below the middle or along nearly the whole margins; glands in a single row along each margin; heads in leafy cymes; peduncles 1-2 cm. long; involucre narrowly campanulate, 4-4.5 mm. high, 2-3 mm. broad; bracts 5, linear-oblong, acutish or obtuse, carinate at the base; ray-flowers 5; ligules 2-3 mm. long, yellow, ascending; disk-flowers 3-10; corollas 2.5 mm. long; achenes 3 mm. long, glabrous or sparingly strigose on the angles; squamellae 15-20, scabrous, bristle-like, 1-2 mm. long, lanceolate-dilated at the base.
Type locality: Grand Cayman.
Distribution: Grand Cayman and keys off Cuba.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1916. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; TAGETEAE, ANTHEMIDEAE. North American flora. vol 34(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
