Calendula Linnaeus (Q2543)

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Calendula is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Calenduleae
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Calendula Linnaeus
Calendula is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Calenduleae

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    taxon/id/Calendula Linnaeus
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    Calendula Linnaeus
    Calendula
    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
    Pot marigold (English)
    Macaronesia
    Mediterranean Europe
    Near East
    North Africa
    widely cultivated
    sometimes escaping and/or persisting
    Stems procumbent to erect, glabrous or arachnose and/or stipitate-glandular.
    Leaves sessile or petiolate;
    blades elliptic, obovate, or oblong to oblanceolate, spatulate, or linear (bases sometimes clasping), margins entire or denticulate, faces sparsely arachnose and/or stipitate-glandular.
    Heads borne singly.
    Involucres campanulate to hemispheric or broader, 10–30+ mm diam.
    Phyllaries 13–40+ in 2+ series, lanceolate to lance-linear.
    Ray-florets 13–50 (–100+) in 1–3+ series;
    corollas yellow to orange, laminae linear to oblanceolate.
    Disc-florets 20–60 (–150+), functionally staminate;
    corollas yellow, reddish, or purplish, tubes shorter than ± campanulate throats.
    Cypselae arcuate to ± coiled (usually some beaked, some 2–3-winged, some both beaked and winged), abaxial faces usually tuberculate and/or transversely ridged.