Logfia Cassini (Q2683)

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Logfia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Gnaphalieae
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Logfia Cassini
Logfia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Gnaphalieae

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    taxon/id/Logfia Cassini
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    Logfia Cassini
    Logfia
    Cassini
    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
    Cottonrose (English)
    cotonnière (English)
    filzkraut (English)
    fluffweed (English)
    cottonweed (English)
    North America
    n Mexico
    Europe
    n Africa
    in South America
    Pacific Islands
    probably elsewhere
    Stems 1, erect, or 2–10+, ascending to prostrate.
    blades subulate to obovate.
    Heads usually in glomerules of 2–10 (–14) in racemiform to paniculiform or dichasiiform arrays, or some [all] borne singly.
    Involucres 0 or inconspicuous.
    Phyllaries 0, vestigial, 1–4 (unequal), or 4–6 (equal).
    Receptacles fungiform to obovoid (heights 0.4–1.6 times diams.), glabrous.
    Pistillate paleae (except usually innermost) readily or tardily falling, erect to ascending;
    bodies with 5+ nerves (nerves ± parallel, obscure), lanceolate to ovate or boatshaped, ± saccate most of lengths (obcompressed to terete, sometimes ± galeate, each ± enclosing a floret);
    wings erect to incurved (apices blunt).
    Innermost paleae usually all pistillate, in some species bisexual and pistillate, persistent, usually 5 or 8, spreading (and enlarged) in fruit, surpassing other pistillate paleae;
    bodies lanceolate to ovate.
    Pistillate florets 14–45+.
    Functionally staminate florets 0.
    Bisexual florets 2–10;
    corolla lobes 4–5, ± equal.
    Cypselae brown, dimorphic: outer compressed to obcompressed, obovoid to ± cylindric, straight or curved, longer than inner, abaxially gibbous, faces glabrous, smooth, shiny;
    inner ± terete, faces glabrous, usually papillate to muriculate, sometimes smooth, dull;
    corolla scars apical to subapical;
    pappi: outer pistillate 0, inner pistillate and bisexual of (11–) 13–28+ bristles (visible in heads).