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Species of flowering plant

Chaptalia albicans
Conservation status

Secure  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Chaptalia
Species: C. albicans
Binomial name
Chaptalia albicans
(Sw.) B.D. Jacks.
Synonyms
  • Chaptalia albicans (Sw.) Vent. ex Steud. (Invalid because listed as synonym)
  • Chaptalia crispula Greene
  • Chaptalia fallax Greene
  • Chaptalia integrifolia var. leiocarpa (DC.) Baker
  • Chaptalia leiocarpa (DC.) Urb.
  • Chaptalia nutans var. leiocarpa (DC.) Hitchc.
  • Chaptalia nutans var. leiocarpa (DC.) Griseb.
  • Chaptalia obovata C. Wright
  • Gerbera albicans Sch.Bip.
  • Gerbera leiocarpa (DC.) Sch.Bip.
  • Leontodon tomentosum L.f.
  • Leria albicans (Sw.) DC. (Illegitimate)
  • Leria albicans (Sw.) A. DC.
  • Leria leiocarpa DC.
  • Leria nutans var. leiocarpa Griseb.
  • Thyrsanthema tomentosum (L.f.) Kuntze
  • Tussilago albicans Sw.

Chaptalia albicans, the white sunbonnet, is a plant species native to Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. It is known from Jamaica, Cuba, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, southern Florida (only in Miami-Dade County), the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Yucatán, Campeche and Chiapas.

Chaptalia albicans is a herb forming a rosette of leaves. Leaves are elliptical, with margins that are wavy or slightly toothed but not lobed. Flowering stalks up to 15 cm tall at flowering time, 40 cm when the fruits are mature. Heads erect, with ray flowers up to 0.3 mm across. Achenes are up to 12 mm long, with a thread-like beak 50-67% as long as the body of the achene, usually hairless.

References

  1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  2. Jackson, Benjamin Daydon. 1893. Index Kewensis 1: 506.
  3. The Plant List
  4. ^ Nesom, G. L. 1995. Revision of Chaptalia (Asteraceae: Mutisieae) from North America and continental Central America. Phytologia 78: 153–188.
  5. BONAP (Biota of North America Project), Floristic Synthesis, Chaptalia albicans
  6. Flora of North America
  7. Davidse, G., M. Sousa-Peña, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2014. Asteraceae. 5(2). In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
  8. Nelson, C. H. 2008. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Honduras 1–1576.
  9. Simpson, B.B. 1978. Chaptalia. North American Flora II 10:3-7.
Taxon identifiers
Chaptalia albicans
Tussilago albicans
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