Chrysactinia lehtoae is a Mexican species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to northwestern Mexico, found only in pine-oak forests in northern Sinaloa.[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Chrysactinia |
| Species: | C. lehtoae
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| Binomial name | |
| Chrysactinia lehtoae | |
Chrysactinia lehtoae is a small, branching, evergreen subshrub up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall. Leaves are pinnately lobed. Flower heads have yellow ray flowers and yellow-green disc flowers.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Strother, J. L. 1977. Taxonomy of Chrysactinia, Harnackia, and Lescaillea (Compositae: Tageteae). Madroño 24: 129–139.
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Keil, David John 1976. Madroño 23: 374
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