View source for Thurovia ← Thurovia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Thurovia |accepted_authority=Rose |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. |place=3: 321. 1895 |year=1895 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Thurovia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Thurovia]]</div></div> |etymology=For naturalist and plant collector Frederick William Thurow, 1852–1952, originally from Germany, of Hockley, Texas, near Houston |volume=Volume 20 |mention_page=page 8, 12, 87, 88, 89, 95 |treatment_page=page 86 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, 6–45 cm (eglandular; taprooted or roots spreading laterally in perennials). <b>Stems</b> erect, branched mostly in distal 1/2, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; alternate; sessile; blades (1-nerved) linear-filiform, margins entire, faces glabrous. <b>Heads</b> discoid, usually in (secund) spiciform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> narrowly cylindro-obconic, (3–4 ×) 1.5–2 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 5–9 in 2 series, 1-nerved (usually convex and without prominent midnerves) outermost linear-oblong and mostly green, oblong-lanceolate, subequal to unequal, white-indurate proximally, proximal margins scarious, (apices acute), faces glabrous. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, shallowly pitted (glabrous), epaleate. <b>Disc</b> florets 3, bisexual, fertile; corollas white or pale yellow, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes 5, spreading-recurved, narrowly lanceolate (lengths 1/2 corollas); style-branch appendages linear-lanceolate. <b>Cypselae</b> obconic, subterete, 4-nerved (subdermal, hardly evident), densely and evenly white-sericeous; pappi persistent, of 10 silvery white, ovate-lanceolate, erose or apiculate scales in 2 series. <b>x</b> = 5.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Tex. |discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!-- --><p><i>Thurovia</i> was treated by M. A. Lane (1985) within <i>Gutierrezia</i>; data of Y. Suh and B. B. Simpson (1990) indicated it to be the sister group of <i>Amphiachyris</i>. The species is distinctive in its spiciform arrays of tiny, axillary, few-flowered, discoid heads with white corollas, densely sericeous cypselae, and pappi of scales.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=lane1985a |text=Lane, M. A. 1985. Taxonomy of Gutierrezia (Compositae: Astereae) in North America. Syst. Bot. 10: 7–28. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Thurovia |author=Guy L. Nesom |authority=Rose |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Asteraceae |illustrator=Barbara Alongi |illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association |distribution=Tex. |reference=lane1985a |publication title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. |publication year=1895 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_165.xml |tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae |genus=Thurovia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Asteraceae tribe Astereae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Asteraceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Thurovia.