Tagetes nelsonii

Tagetes nelsonii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Tagetes
Species: T. nelsonii
Binomial name
Tagetes nelsonii
Greenm. 1903
Synonyms[1]
  • Tagetes sororia Standl. & Steyerm.

Tagetes nelsonii is a Mexican species of marigolds in the sunflower family. It is native the Guatemala and to the State of Chiapas in southern Mexico.[2][3][4][5]

Tagetes nelsonii is an hairless annual herb up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. Leaves are pinnately compound with 3-7 leaflets. One plant produces numerous small flower heads in a flat-topped array, each containing 5-6 yellow ray florets surrounding 9-12 greenish-yellow disc florets.[6]

References

  1. The Plant List, Tagetes nelsonii Greenm.
  2. Turner, B. L. 1996. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 6. Tageteae and Athemideae. Phytologia Memoirs. 10: i–ii, 1–22, 43–93
  3. Williams, L. O. 1976. Tribe VI, Helenieae. En: D. L. Nash & L. O. Williams (Eds), Flora of Guatemala - Part XII. Fieldiana, Botany 24(12): 361–386, 571–580
  4. Breedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246.
  5. Greenman, Jesse More 1903. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 39(5): 117
  6. Rydberg, Per Axel 1913. in Britton, Nathaniel Lord, North American Flora 34: 156
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