These plants have erect stems which are unbranched or have few branches and grow 10 centimeters (4 inches) to well over 100 centimeters (40 inches) in height. The leaves are mostly
opposite, but on the upper stem they may be
alternately arranged. The cylindrical
flower heads are just a few millimeters wide and are arranged in narrow or
spikelike inflorescences. They contain 8 to 12 greenish or whitish
disc florets. The fruit is a
cypsela with a
pappus of several plumelike bristles or scales. •
Carminatia alvarezii Rzed. & Calderón -
San Luis Potosí,
Querétaro,
Puebla,
Oaxaca,
México State,
Hidalgo •
Carminatia papagayana B.L.Turner -
Guerrero •
Carminatia recondita McVaugh -
Guatemala,
El Salvador,
Chiapas,
Colima,
Guerrero,
Oaxaca,
Jalisco,
México State,
Michoacán,
Morelos,
Nayarit,
Veracruz,
Sinaloa,
San Luis Potosí •
Carminatia tenuiflora DC. -
Guatemala,
El Salvador, most of
Mexico, southern
Arizona, southwestern
New Mexico, western
Texas ==References==