Baccharis Linnaeus (Q2145)

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Baccharis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Astereae
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Baccharis Linnaeus
Baccharis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Astereae

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    Baccharis Linnaeus
    Baccharis
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 20: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 7: Asteraceae, part 2. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Groundsel-tree (English)
    Mostly New World tropics and warm-temperate regions
    especially diverse in South America
    Perennials, subshrubs, shrubs, or trees, 10–600 cm (dioecious [rarely monoecious], usually glabrous, often resinous; bases woody, rarely rhizomatous).
    Stems (1–20+) usually erect or ascending, rarely prostrate (usually striate-angled, rarely terete and smooth; usually green), glabrous, glabrate, hispidulous, or villous, often resinous.
    sessile or petiolate;
    blades 1-nerved or 3-nerved, linear, lanceolate, ovate, oblong, obovate, or rhombic (usually reduced distally), margins entire or coarsely serrate, faces usually glabrous, rarely hispidulous or villous, often gland-dotted and resinous.
    Heads (sessile or pedicellate, unisexual) discoid, usually in paniculiform or corymbiform, sometimes racemiform arrays or borne singly.
    Involucres cylindric to campanulate or hemispheric, 3–9 mm diam.
    Phyllaries 20–40 in 2–5 series (mid usually green, sometimes red or purple), 1-nerved, ovate to lanceolate, unequal, margins usually scarious, often erose or ciliate, sometimes keeled (midribs evident or not, apices obtuse to acute or acuminate, sometimes keeled), usually glabrous, rarely hispid.
    Receptacles flat, tholiform, or conic, pitted or smooth (glabrous, tomentose, or glandular), usually epaleate.
    Functionally staminate florets 10–50;
    corollas white to pale-yellow, tubes about equal to narrowly funnelform throats, lobes 5, spreading-reflexed, deltate to lanceovate (pappi of 20–40 equal, often crisped and minutely barbellate or distally plumose bristles).
    Pistillate florets 20–150;
    corollas whitish, filiform-tubular, lobes 5, spreading-reflexed, ± deltate to lanceovate;
    style-branches (glabrate, flattened), appendages lacking.
    Cypselae light-brown, obovoid to cylindric, ± compressed, 5–10-nerved, glabrous or hispid;
    pappi persistent or falling, of 25–50 whitish to tawny, rarely brownish (elongating and usually surpassing phyllaries in fruit), minutely barbellate, apically attenuate bristles in 1–3 series.