- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60448388-2
- Species Name
- Pentachaeta aurea Nutt.
- Publication
- Madrono; Journal of the California Botanical Society
- Collation
- 54(4): 343 (-344)
- Date of Publication
- dt. 2007; issued 18 Feb 2008
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Asteraceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- Robert L. Allen s.n.
- Locality
- Lomas de Santiago, Limestone Canyon Wilderness Park, Limestone Canyon, on gentle south-facing hillside with Castilleja exserta, Linanthus dianthiflorus, Erodium spp., and introduced Bromus grasses; the area burned extensively in 1998
- Collection Date
- 12 Apr 2003
- Type Herbaria
- holotype OBI
isotype CSUF
isotype RSA
isotype UC - Distribution Of Types
- Orange County (California, Southwestern U.S.A., Northern America)
Remarks
apparently endemic to southwestern Orange Co., California. Lamina tips of ray corollas of living specimens of the plants are pale yellow in early morning but turn brilliant white after 1–2 hr in sunshine; laminae of subsp. aurea are solid yellow. (vide abstract).