Leontodon Linnaeus (Q3137)

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Leontodon is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cichorieae
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Leontodon Linnaeus
Leontodon is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cichorieae

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    taxon/id/Leontodon Linnaeus
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    Leontodon Linnaeus
    Leontodon
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Hawkbit (English)
    Europe
    n North Africa
    Mediterranean
    w Asia
    fibrous-rooted, sometimes tuberous, or with short caudices.
    Stems 1–20+, simple and scapiform or sparingly branched, glabrous, tomentulose, or coarsely hirsute.
    petiolate (petioles winged);
    blades oblanceolate, margins entire or dentate or deeply lobed (faces glabrous or hispid, hairs simple or minutely 2–3-fid).
    Heads borne singly or 2–5 in loose, corymbiform arrays.
    Peduncles slightly inflated, naked or minutely bracteate.
    Calyculi of 10–20, subulate to lanceolate bractlets in 1–2 series (unequal), glabrous, tomentulose, or hirsute.
    Involucres campanulate, 4–15 mm diam.
    Phyllaries 16–20 in 2+ series, narrowly lanceolate, subequal, glabrous, tomentulose, or hirsute.
    Receptacles convex, pitted, sometimes slightly villous, epaleate.
    corollas yellow to orange (outer sometimes with reddish or greenish stripes).
    Cypselae light to dark-brown or reddish-brown, fusiform or cylindric, curved, distally narrowed and not beaked, or beaked, ribs 10–14, faces muricate, glabrous;
    pappi of ± distinct, yellowish white, tan, or pale-brown bristles in 1–2 series (all uniformly plumose or outer reduced; pappi of outer cypselae sometimes reduced to crowns of bristlelike scales).