Cichorium Linnaeus (Q3069)
Cichorium is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cichorieae
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Cichorium is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cichorieae
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taxon/id/Cichorium Linnaeus
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Cichorium Linnaeus
Cichorium
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
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Stems usually 1, erect, branched distally or throughout, setose or hispid to pilose, or glabrous.
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basal blades oblanceolate to lance-linear, margins usually runcinate-pinnate to dentate, rarely entire;
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cauline similar, smaller, margins dentate or entire.
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Heads mostly in glomerules (axillary and nearly sessile), some borne singly (on ± elongate peduncles).
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Peduncles (dimorphic: most 0–2 mm, some 12–85+ mm): the longer often slightly inflated distally, not bracteate.
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Calyculi 0 (or interpreted as outer phyllaries).
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Involucres ± cylindric, 3–5+ mm diam.
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Phyllaries 10–15+ in 2+ series, lanceovate to lanceolate or linear, unequal, margins little, if at all, scarious, apices obtuse to acute.
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Receptacles flat, pitted, ± hispid, usually epaleate.
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corollas usually blue [purple], sometimes pink or white.
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Cypselae brownish, ± prismatic (3–5-angled), not beaked, faces smooth, glabrous;
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inflated
often slightly; distally
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lanceovate
lanceolate or linear
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