Isocoma veneta

Isocoma veneta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Isocoma
Species:
I. veneta
Binomial name
Isocoma veneta
(Kunth) Greene 1894
Synonyms
  • Aplopappus discoideus DC.
  • Baccharis veneta Kunth 1818
  • Bigelowia veneta (Kunth) Gray
  • Bigelovia veneta (Kunth) Gray
  • Haplopappus discoideus DC.
  • Haplopappus venetus (Kunth) S. F. Blake
  • Aplopappus venetus (Kunth) S. F. Blake
  • Linosyris mexicana Schltdl.
  • Aster venetus Kuntze

Isocoma veneta (also known as false damiana) is a Mexican species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across much of Mexico from Coahuila and Tamaulipas south as far as Oaxaca and Veracruz.

Isocoma veneta is a subshrub up to 70 centimetres (28 in) tall. It produces flower heads in clusters at the tips of branches, each head with 17-26 disc flowers but no ray flowers.

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