Chrysactinia Luzmariae
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''Chrysactinia luzmariae'' is a Mexican species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to north-central Mexico, in the state of
Guanajuato Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...
.José Luis Villaseñor y María del Rosario Redonda–Martínez. 2009. El género ''Chrysactinia'' (Asteraceae, tribu Tageteae) en México. Revista mexicana de biodiversidad 80(1)
in Spanish with line drawings and distribution maps
''Chrysactinia luzmariae'' is a shrub up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. Leaves are pinnately lobed with a sharp point at the tip.
Flower heads A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"; ) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, compos ...
have yellow ray flowers and yellow disc flowers. The species grows in brushy
chaparral Chaparral ( ) is a shrubland plant community and geographical feature found primarily in the U.S. state of California, in southern Oregon, and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean c ...
regions.Rzedowski, Jerzy & Calderón, Graciela 1998. Boletín del Instituto Botánica de la Universidad de Guadalajara 5: 63


References

Flora of Guanajuato Tageteae Plants described in 1998 {{Asteroideae-stub