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|accepted_name=Tonestus pygmaeus
|accepted_authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) A. Nelson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Gaz.
|place=37: 262. 1904
|year=1904
}}
|common_names=Pygmy serpentweed
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Stenotus pygmaeus
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication_place=2: 237. 1842
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Haplopappus pygmaeus
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Tonestus;Tonestus pygmaeus
|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>[[Tonestus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tonestus pygmaeus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 182
|treatment_page=page 183
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> loosely cespitose, 1–9 cm; with branched caudices surmounting well-developed taproots. <b>Stems</b> densely hairy, sometimes also stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b>: basal blades linear to spatulate, 10–50(–95) × 1.5–6 mm; cauline blades oblong to broadly lanceolate, 15–34 × 3–7 mm, gradually reduced distally; 3–5-nerved, margins entire, ciliate, sometimes stipitate-glandular, faces eglandular or sparsely stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> 1(–2). <b>Peduncles</b> 3–8 mm. <b>Involucres</b> broadly campanulate, 8–20 × 7–12 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 16–34, in 3–4 (–5) series, 1- or weakly 3–5-nerved, ± equal, margins ciliolate at least distally; outer and mid green, ovate to oblong, 4.5–10.5 × 1.5–5.5 mm, foliaceous, apices rounded to obtuse, faces sparsely stipitate-glandular distally; inner green or usually anthocyanic, linear to narrowly oblong, 5–9 × 0.9–4 mm, chartaceous proximally, margins scarious, often fimbriate, sometimes stipitate-glandular, apices acute to acuminate, sometimes reflexed, faces sparsely stipitate-glandular distally. <b>Ray</b> florets 10–16(–35); laminae elliptic, 6.5–8.5 × 1.5–3.5 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 43–66; corollas narrowly funnelform, 4.5–7.5 mm, lobes erect to spreading, 0.8–1.2 mm, lengths ca. 1/7 corollas; anthers 2.2–2.8 mm; style-branch appendages lanceolate, 0.8–1.1 × 0.3 mm wide, stigmatic lines 0.6–1 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> cylindric, 2–5 mm, 8–9-nerved, faces villous; pappus bristles ± 34–51, flexible. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting early–late summer.
|habitat=Meadows, fellfields, talus slopes, rock crevices, dwarf coniferous forests in alpine and upper subalpine communities, on soils of usually granitic, sometimes limestone origin
|elevation=3100–4100 m
|distribution=Colo.;Mont.;N.Mex.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Tonestus pygmaeus</i> is uncommon in Wyoming, known only from the Snowy Range of the Medicine Bow Mountains. Attribution of this species to Montana is based on historic collections.</p>
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name=Tonestus pygmaeus
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) A. Nelson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Haplopappus pygmaeus
|basionyms=Stenotus pygmaeus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting early–late summer.
|habitat=Meadows, fellfields, talus slopes, rock crevices, dwarf coniferous forests in alpine and upper subalpine communities, on soils of usually granitic, sometimes limestone origin
|elevation=3100–4100 m
|distribution=Colo.;Mont.;N.Mex.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Gaz.
|publication year=1904
|special status=Endemic
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Tonestus
|species=Tonestus pygmaeus
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