Brickellia Elliott (Q2590)

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Brickellia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Eupatorieae
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Brickellia Elliott
Brickellia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Eupatorieae

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    Brickellia Elliott
    Brickellia
    Elliott
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 21: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 8: Asteraceae, part 3. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    North America
    Mexico
    Central America
    Annuals, perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs, (12–) 30–120 (–200) cm.
    Stems mostly erect, often much branched (sometimes virgate, often striate).
    petiolate or sessile;
    blades usually 3-nerved from bases, deltate, lance-elliptic, lance-linear, lanceolate, lanceovate, lance-rhombic, linear, oblong, obovate, ovate, rhombic-ovate, spatulate, or suborbiculate, margins mostly crenate, dentate, entire, laciniate-dentate, lobed, serrate, or toothed, faces glabrous (sometimes shiny) or glandular-puberulent, strigose, or tomentose, sometimes glanddotted.
    Heads usually in corymbiform, sometimes cymiform, paniculiform, or racemiform, arrays, rarely borne singly.
    Involucres cylindric to obconic or campanulate, 5–12 mm diam.
    Phyllaries persistent, (10–) 14–45 (–60) in 3–7 (–9) series, usually (4–) 5–6 (–16) -striate or nerved, linear or lanceolate to oblanceolate or oblong, usually unequal (usually chartaceous, sometimes herbaceous).
    Receptacles flat to convex, epaleate.
    Florets (3–) 8–45 (–90);
    corollas usually white or whitish to cream, sometimes greenish, purplish or yellowish, throats mostly cylindric to narrowly funnelform (lengths 3–5 times diams.);
    styles: bases enlarged, hairy, branches narrowly clavate (± dilated distally).
    Cypselae narrowly prismatic, 10-ribbed, glabrous or hairy to glabrate, often glanddotted;
    pappi persistent, of 10–80 usually smooth or barbellulate to barbellate, sometimes plumose or subplumose bristles in 1 series.