Cichorium Linnaeus (Q3069)

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