Tagetes microglossa

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| genus = Tagetes

| species = microglossa

| authority = Benth. 1845

| synonyms_ref = [http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/gcc-31422 The Plant List, Tagetes microglossa Benth. ]

| synonyms = Tagetes jaliscana Rydb.

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Tagetes microglossa is a Mesoamerican species of marigold in the family Asteraceae. It grows in Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador, as well as in central and southern Mexico, from Jalisco to Chiapas.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, 43–93Strother, J. L. 1999. Compositae–Heliantheae s. l. 5: 1–232. In D.E. Breedlove (ed.) Flora of Chiapas. California Academy of Sciences, San FranciscoBerendsohn, W.G. & A.E. Araniva de González. 1989. Listado básico de la Flora Salvadorensis: Dicotyledonae, Sympetalae (pro parte): Labiatae, Bignoniaceae, Acanthaceae, Pedaliaceae, Martyniaceae, Gesneriaceae, Compositae. Cuscatlania 1(3): 290–1–290–13Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/2701365 Tropicos, Tagetes microglossa Benth.]

Tagetes microglossa is a hairless annual herb up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall. Leaves are pinnately compound with 7-11 leaflets. The plant produces a few flower heads are yellow, in a flat-topped array, each head containing 3-5 ray florets surrounding numerous disc florets.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28762240#page/85/mode/1up Rydberg, Per Axel 1913. in Britton, Nathaniel Lord, North American Flora 34: 157]