Litrisa
| Litrisa | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
| Tribe: | Eupatorieae |
| Genus: | Litrisa Small |
| Species: | L. carnosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Litrisa carnosa Small | |
| Synonyms | |
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Litrisa is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae. There is only one known species, Litrisa carnosa, called pineland chaffhead, native to the State of Florida in the United States. Some taxonomists group Litrisa and Trilisa into the genus Carphephorus.
A shrub, it grows up to 90 cm (3 feet) tall and is covered with many small hairs and produced flat-topped inflorescences of many small purplish flower heads.
References
- 1 2 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Deprecated link archived 2014-12-17 at archive.today
- ↑ The Plant List Litrisa carnosa Small
- ↑ Small, John Kunkel. 1924. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 51(9): 392 entirely in English
- ↑ Tropicos, Litrisa Small
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, Carphephorus carnosus
- ↑ Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
- 1 2 Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 535 Carphephorus Cassini, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris. 1816: 198. 1816.
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