Dimorphotheca Moench (Q2546)

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Dimorphotheca is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Calenduleae
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Dimorphotheca Moench
Dimorphotheca is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Calenduleae

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    taxon/id/Dimorphotheca Moench
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    Dimorphotheca Moench
    Dimorphotheca
    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
    African daisy (English)
    Cape marigold (English)
    Stems procumbent to erect [prostrate], glabrous or arachnose to piloso-hirtellous and/or stipitate-glandular.
    Leaves ± sessile or petiolate;
    blades oblong or oblanceolate to linear, margins entire or dentate [pinnately lobed], faces sparsely arachnose and/or stipitate-glandular.
    Heads borne singly.
    Involucres campanulate to hemispheric or broader, 5–20+ mm diam.
    Phyllaries 15–21 in 2 (–3) series, lanceolate to lance-linear.
    Receptacles flat to conic.
    Ray-florets 10–21+ in ± 1 series;
    corollas usually yellow to orange or white, sometimes purplish abaxially and/or at bases or apices, laminae oblongelliptic to oblanceolate.
    Disc-florets 15–50+, bisexual, all or mostly fertile (inner sometimes functionally staminate);
    corollas whitish or yellow, red, or purplish, tubes much shorter than ± campanulate throats (lobes sometimes with terete or dilated appendages).