''Kyhosia'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family

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containing the single species ''Kyhosia bolanderi'', which is known by the common names Bolander's madia and kyhosia. This plant was included in genus ''

Madia ''Madia'' is a genus of annual or perennial usually aromatic herbs with yellow flowers, in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae.

'' until 1999, when it was separated and a new genus was created for it. The new genus is named for

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botanist Donald Kyhos.Flora of North America: ''Kyhosia''
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Range

''Kyhosia'' is native to the mountains of

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from the

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north to the

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, where its distribution extends into southern

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. It is a plant of mountain meadows and other moist areas such as streambanks.B. G. Baldwin, 1999. New combinations and new genera in North American tarweeds. Novon. 9: 462-471.
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Description

''Kyhosia'' is a perennial herb which may exceed a meter in height. Its slender stem is bristly and covered in dark-colored, stalked

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. The bristly linear or lance-shaped leaves may be up to 30 centimeters long; those occurring oppositely along the stem are sometimes fused together at the bases. Those further up the stem are much smaller and alternately arranged. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

is made up of one or more

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 ...

at the top of the stem. Each head has a bell-shaped involucre of bristly, glandular

phyllaries In botanical terminology, a phyllary, also known an involucral bract or tegule, is a single bract of the involucre of a composite flower. The involucre is the grouping of bracts together. Phyllaries are reduced leaf-like structures that form one or ...

at the base, a center of black-tipped yellow disc florets, and a fringe of 8 to 12 golden ray florets roughly 1 centimeter long. The fruit is a club-shaped

achene An achene (; ), also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are monocarpellate (formed from one carpel) and indehiscent (they do not ope ...

just under a centimeter long; achenes arising from the disc florets have

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of scales.

References

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment: ''Kyhosia''USDA Plants Profile for ''Kyhosia''Flora of North America: ''Kyhosia bolanderi''UC Photos gallery: ''Kyhosia bolanderi''
{{Taxonbar, from1=Q16079196, from2=Q6450932, from3=Q50846806 Monotypic Asteraceae genera Flora of California Flora of Oregon Flora of the Cascade Range Flora of the Klamath Mountains Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Taxa named by Asa Gray Madieae Flora without expected TNC conservation status