Pluchea Cassini (Q2817)

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Pluchea is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Inuleae
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Pluchea Cassini
Pluchea is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Inuleae

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    Pluchea Cassini
    Pluchea
    Cassini
    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
    Tropical and warm-temperate regions
    North America
    West Indies
    South America
    se Asia
    Africa
    Australia
    Pacific Islands
    taprooted or fibrous-rooted.
    Stems erect, simple or branched, seldom winged (see P. sagittalis), usually puberulent to tomentose and stipitate or sessile-glandular, sometimes glabrous.
    petiolate or sessile;
    blades mostly elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, oblong, obovate, or ovate, bases clasping or not, margins entire or dentate, abaxial faces mostly arachnose, puberulent, sericeous, strigose, or villous and/or stipitate or sessile-glandular, adaxial similar or glabrate or glabrous.
    Heads disciform, in corymbiform or paniculiform arrays (flat-topped or ± elongate).
    Involucres mostly campanulate, cupulate, cylindric, hemispheric, or turbinate, 3–10 (–12) mm diam.
    Phyllaries persistent or falling, in 3–6+ series, mostly ovate to lanceolate or linear, unequal.
    Receptacles flat, epaleate.
    Peripheral (pistillate) florets in 3–10+ series, fertile;
    corollas creamy white, whitish, yellowish, pinkish, lavender, purplish, or rosy.
    Inner (functionally staminate) florets 2–40+;
    corollas creamy white, whitish, yellowish, pinkish, lavender, purplish, or rosy, lobes (4–) 5.
    Cypselae oblong-cylindric, ribs 4–8, faces strigillose and/or minutely sessile-glandular or glabrous (in the flora, only P. sericea);
    pappi persistent or tardily falling, of distinct or basally connate, barbellate bristles in 1 series.