Blepharipappus Hooker (Q2848)

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Blepharipappus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Madieae
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Blepharipappus Hooker
Blepharipappus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Madieae

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    taxon/id/Blepharipappus Hooker
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    Blepharipappus Hooker
    Blepharipappus
    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
    nw North America
    Stems ± erect (scabrous and, sometimes, hirsute, usually stipitate-glandular distally).
    Leaves mostly cauline;
    blades narrowly spatulate to linear, margins entire, faces scabrous, hirsute, strigose, sericeous, or villous (distal leaves usually stipitate-glandular as well).
    Heads radiate, borne singly or in open, corymbiform arrays.
    Peduncular bracts: pit-glands, tack-glands, and/or spines 0 at tips.
    Involucres turbinate to campanulate or hemispheric, 3–6+ mm diam.
    Phyllaries (2–) 3–5 (–8) in 1 series, ± lanceolate or oblanceolate, herbaceous, each ± 1/2 investing subtended floret proximally, abaxially ± hirsute and/or stipitate-glandular.
    Receptacles convex, glabrous, paleate (paleae falling, subtending all or most disc-florets, outer herbaceous, inner scarious).
    Ray-florets (2–) 3–5 (–8), pistillate, fertile;
    corollas whitish (nerved with purple abaxially).
    Disc-florets 6–25 (–60+), bisexual, fertile;
    corollas whitish, tubes shorter than or about equaling funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate (anthers ± dark purple; styles ± hairy proximal to branches, branches ca. 0.2 mm).
    Cypselae ± obconic or terete (basal attachments ± central, faces ± villous, apices not beaked);
    pappi 0 or of 12–18 (–26) subulate fimbriate to ciliate or plumose scales.