Flyriella Stanfordii
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''Flyriella stanfordii'' is a Mexican species of plants in the family
Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
. It is native to the States of
Nuevo León Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...
,
Tamaulipas Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...
in northeastern Mexico.King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1972. Phytologia 24(3): 67–69
description in Latin, habitat information in English
photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León in 1993
/ref> ''Flyriella stanfordii'' grows amidst luxuriant vegetation in moist canyons. Its stem is covered with long hairs. Leaves are egg-shaped, up to long. One plant will produce numerous flower heads tightly packed into a flat-topped array. Each head has 20-23 white disc flowers but no ray flowers.


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Eupatorieae Plants described in 1972 Flora of Northeastern Mexico {{Eupatorieae-stub