Tagetes nelsonii
Tagetes nelsonii | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Tagetes |
Species: | T. nelsonii |
Binomial name | |
Tagetes nelsonii Greenm. 1903 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Tagetes nelsonii is a Mexican species of marigolds in the sunflower family. It is native the Guatemala and to the State of Chiapas in southern Mexico.[2][3][4][5]
Tagetes nelsonii is an hairless annual herb up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. Leaves are pinnately compound with 3-7 leaflets. One plant produces numerous small flower heads in a flat-topped array, each containing 5-6 yellow ray florets surrounding 9-12 greenish-yellow disc florets.[6]
References
- ↑ The Plant List, Tagetes nelsonii Greenm.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Williams, L. O. 1976. Tribe VI, Helenieae. En: D. L. Nash & L. O. Williams (Eds), Flora of Guatemala - Part XII. Fieldiana, Botany 24(12): 361–386, 571–580
- ↑ Breedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246.
- ↑ Greenman, Jesse More 1903. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 39(5): 117
- ↑ Rydberg, Per Axel 1913. in Britton, Nathaniel Lord, North American Flora 34: 156
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