''Stylocline'' (neststraw) is a small genus of
North America
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n desert plants in the tribe
Gnaphalieae
The Gnaphalieae, commonly known as paper daisies, are a tribe of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is most closely related to the tribes Anthemideae, Astereae, and Calenduleae.
Characteristics
This group is most diverse in South Ame ...
within the family
Asteraceae
Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...
.
[Nuttall, Thomas. 1840. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 7: 338–339]
in English
Neststraw is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
[Flora of North America, Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 450 Neststraw, ''Stylocline'' Nuttall]
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Description
Species of ''Stylocline'' are generally small plants, and certain ones are difficult to distinguish from each other because identifying characteristics are too small to see with the naked eye.
They are annuals with woolly, hairy, or spiderwebby textures. Thin stems end in heads of disc flowers or tubular pistillate
Gynoecium (; ; : gynoecia) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl of a flower; it consists of (one or more) ...
flowers. The fruits are smooth and shiny and encapsulated within the disc heads.[
]
Species
Species
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include:[Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps]
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* ''Stylocline citroleum
''Stylocline citroleum'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name oil neststraw.
Description
This inconspicuous annual herb produces a grayish, trailing, forking stem no more than long. The grayish, ...
'' - oil neststraw — California
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(Kern
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People
* Kern (surname), includes a list of people with the name
* Kern (soldier), a light infantry unit in Medieval Irish armies
Places
* Kern, Alaska, a ghost town in Alaska
* Kern, Austria, see Sankt Marienkir ...
+ San Diego Counties)
* ''Stylocline gnaphaloides
''Stylocline gnaphaloides'' (often misspelled ''S. gnaphalioides'') is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names mountain neststraw and everlasting neststraw.
Distribution
The plant is native to southern Califor ...
'' - mountain neststraw — California
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, Arizona
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* ''Stylocline intertexta
''Stylocline intertexta'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names Morefield's neststraw and Mojave neststraw. It is native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, whe ...
'' - Morefield's neststraw — California
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, Arizona
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, Nevada
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, Utah
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* ''Stylocline masonii
''Stylocline masonii'' is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Mason's neststraw.
Description
''Stylocline masonii'' is a small, inconspicuous plant that can only be identified with certainty d ...
'' - Mason's neststraw — California
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(Kern
Kern or KERN may refer to:
People
* Kern (surname), includes a list of people with the name
* Kern (soldier), a light infantry unit in Medieval Irish armies
Places
* Kern, Alaska, a ghost town in Alaska
* Kern, Austria, see Sankt Marienkir ...
, Los Angeles
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, San Luis Obispo
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, & Monterey Counties)
* ''Stylocline micropoides
''Stylocline micropoides'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names woollyhead neststraw, woollyhead fanbract and desert neststraw. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern areas of Mex ...
'' - woolly neststraw — Sonora
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, Baja California
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, California
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, Arizona
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, Nevada
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, Utah
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, New Mexico
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, Texas
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* ''Stylocline psilocarphoides
''Stylocline psilocarphoides'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names baretwig neststraw and Peck's neststraw. It is native to the western United States from Idaho to southeastern California, where it g ...
'' - baretwig neststraw — California
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, Nevada
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, Oregon
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, Idaho
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, Utah
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* ''Stylocline sonorensis
''Stylocline'' (neststraw) is a small genus of North American desert plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae within the family Asteraceae.[Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into Municipalities of Sonora, 72 ...]
, California
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(Riverside County
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), and Arizona
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( Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, & Graham Counties)
Former species
Species formerly included and reclassified:[Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist ]
* ''Stylocline acaulis — Hesperevax acaulis''
* ''Stylocline amphibola — Micropus amphibolus''
* ''Stylocline amphiloba — Micropus amphibolus''
* ''Stylocline griffithii — Cymbolaena griffithii''
* ''Stylocline filaginea'' var. ''filaginea'' — '' Ancistrocarphus filagineus''
* See also other species of the genera '' Ancistrocarphus, Cymbolaena, Hesperevax'', and '' Micropus.''
References
External links
USDA Plants Profile for ''Stylocline'' (neststraw)
CalFlora Database: ''Stylocline'' (neststraw) links
— ''native California species ''.
Jepson Manual (TJM) treatment: ''Stylocline''
Asteraceae genera
North American desert flora
Taxa named by Thomas Nuttall
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