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Tracyina

Indian headdress
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae
Genus: Tracyina
S.F.Blake
Species: T. rostrata
Binomial name
Tracyina rostrata
S.F.Blake

Tracyina is a genus of Californian plants in the aster tribe within the daisy family.

The genus is named for Calilfornia botanist Joseph Prince Tracy, 1879–1953.

The only known species is Tracyina rostrata, which is known by the common names Indian headdress and beaked tracyina. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the grassy slopes of the North Coast Ranges north of the San Francisco Bay Area (Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino, Lake, Alameda, and Sonoma Counties).


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