Canadanthus G. L. Nesom (Q2152)

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Canadanthus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Astereae
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Canadanthus G. L. Nesom
Canadanthus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Astereae

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    taxon/id/Canadanthus G.L. Nesom
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    Canadanthus G.L. Nesom
    Canadanthus
    G.L. Nesom
    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
    Aster (English)
    North America
    Stems ascending to erect, simple, ± densely villous, stipitate-glandular distally.
    blades 1-nerved, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate to (sometimes narrowly) oblanceolate or lanceolate, margins entire to serrate, abaxial faces glabrate to ± strigose, adaxial sparsely villous, (distal) stipitate-glandular.
    Heads radiate, usually in leafy, irregularly flat-topped, paniculiform to corymbiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.
    Involucres cylindro-campanulate, {(5–) 7–10 ×} 12–16 mm.
    Phyllaries 26–60+ in 3–5 series, 1-nerved (flat), lanceolate, subequal, outer ± foliaceous, inner herbaceous, bases not indurate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular.
    Receptacles flat, pitted, epaleate.
    Ray-florets 20–65 in 1 series, pistillate, fertile;
    corollas pale to dark purple or rose (coiling).
    Disc-florets 40–65, bisexual, fertile;
    corollas whitish to pale-yellow, turning purple, lobes sometimes purplish-tinged, ± ampliate, tubes shorter than tubular throats, lobes 5, erect, triangular;
    style-branch appendages narrowly triangular (hairy).
    Cypselae obconic-fusiform, compressed, 4–9-nerved, faces sparsely strigose, eglandular;
    pappi of 20–35+ cinnamon, equal, barbellate, attenuate bristles in 1 series.