Anthemis Linnaeus (Q2110)

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Anthemis is a taxon with the rank genus within the subtribe Anthemidinae
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Anthemis Linnaeus
Anthemis is a taxon with the rank genus within the subtribe Anthemidinae

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    taxon/id/Anthemis Linnaeus
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    Anthemis Linnaeus
    Anthemis
    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
    Chamomile (English)
    Europe
    sw Asia
    e Africa
    in s Africa
    Pacific Islands (New Zealand)
    Australia
    Stems 1–5+, erect to decumbent, usually branched, strigillose or strigoso-sericeous to villous (hairs medifixed), glabrescent [glabrous or sericeous to lanate].
    Leaves mostly cauline;
    petiolate or sessile;
    blades ± obovate to spatulate, 1–3-pinnately lobed, ultimate margins dentate to lobed, faces glabrous or strigillose to villous [glabrous or sericeous to lanate].
    Heads radiate [discoid], borne singly or in lax, corymbiform arrays (peduncles sometimes clavate and/or curved in fruit).
    Involucres obconic to hemispheric or broader, 5–13 [–20] mm diam.
    Phyllaries persistent, mostly 21–35+ in 3–5 series, distinct, deltate to lanceolate, oblong, or elliptic, unequal, margins and apices (hyaline and colorless or brownish [black]) scarious.
    Receptacles hemispheric to narrowly conic, paleate (wholly or only distally);
    paleae ± flat, scarious to indurate (subulate or elliptic to obovate with mucronate to acuminate-spinose tips).
    Ray-florets [0 or 2–] 5–20 [–30+], pistillate and fertile or styliferous and sterile;
    corollas usually white, rarely yellow or pink, laminae mostly oblong (tubes sometimes hairy).
    Disc-florets (60–) 100–300+, bisexual, fertile;
    corollas usually yellow, rarely pink, tubes ± cylindric (usually proximally dilated, ± spongy in fruit, sometimes hairy, not saccate), throats funnelform, lobes 5, ± triangular (abaxially minutely crested).
    Cypselae obovoid to obconic or turbinate (circular or 4-angled in cross-section), ribs usually 9–10 (0) and smooth or tuberculate, faces glabrous (pericarps with myxogenic cells);