Filago Loefling in C. Linnaeus (Q2673)

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Filago is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Gnaphalieae
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Filago Loefling in C. Linnaeus
Filago is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Gnaphalieae

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    taxon/id/Filago Loefling
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    Filago Loefling
    Filago
    Loefling
    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
    Herba impia (English)
    cotonnière (English)
    cottonrose (English)
    Europe
    w Asia
    n Africa
    Atlantic Islands
    in North America
    Australia
    Stems [0] 1, ± erect, or 2–7 [–10+], ± ascending [prostrate].
    blades lanceolate to oblanceolate [spatulate or ± round].
    Heads in (dense, spheric [hemispheric]) glomerules of [2–] 8–35+ in ± dichasiiform arrays [borne singly].
    Involucres 0 or inconspicuous.
    Phyllaries usually 0, rarely 1–4, unequal (similar to paleae).
    Receptacles cylindric to clavate (heights [2–] 5–15 times diams.), glabrous.
    Pistillate paleae (except usually innermost) ± persistent [falling], ± erect to ascending;
    bodies with 5+ nerves (nerves ± parallel, obscure), lanceolate to ovate, open to ± folded (each at most enfolding, not enclosing a floret);
    wings erect to recurved (apices acuminate to aristate).
    Innermost paleae usually all pistillate, in some species bisexual and pistillate, persistent or tardily falling, usually 5, erect to ascending [spreading] (scarcely enlarged) in fruit, shorter than other pistillate paleae;
    bodies lanceolate to ovate.
    Pistillate florets [12–] 27–40+.
    Functionally staminate florets 0.
    Bisexual florets (1–) 2–9 (–11);
    corolla lobes 4, ± equal.
    Cypselae brown, ± monomorphic: terete to ± compressed, cylindric to ± obovoid, usually straight, not gibbous, faces papillate to muricate [glabrous, smooth], dull;
    corolla scars apical [subapical];
    pappi: outer pistillate 0, inner pistillate and bisexual of [3–] 13–21 bristles (visible in heads).