Tagetes triradiata
Tagetes triradiata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Tagetes |
Species: | T. triradiata |
Binomial name | |
Tagetes triradiata Greenm. | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Tagetes triradiata is a Mexican species of marigolds in the sunflower family. It is native to central Mexico (Puebla, Morelos, México State, D.F., Veracruz).[2][3][4]
Tagetes triradiata is an hairless annual herb up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. Leaves are pinnately compound with 15-21 leaflets. One plant produces numerous small flower heads in a flat-topped array, each containing 3 bright yellow ray florets surrounding several yellow disc florets.[3][5]
References
- ↑ The Plant List, Tagetes triradiata 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
- 1 2 Rydberg, Per Axel 1913. in Britton, Nathaniel Lord, North American Flora 34: 157
- ↑ photo of herbarium at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Mexican Federal District in 1896, isotype of Tagetes triradiata
- ↑ Greenman, Jesse More 1897. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 32(16): 310
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