Cacaliopsis A. Gray (Q2876)

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Cacaliopsis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Senecioneae
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Cacaliopsis A. Gray
Cacaliopsis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Senecioneae

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    Cacaliopsis A. Gray
    Cacaliopsis
    A. Gray
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 20: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 7: Asteraceae, part 2. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    w North America
    Stems usually 1, erect.
    Leaves mostly basal;
    blades palmately nerved (and lobed, lobes further digitately divided), ± reniform to orbiculate, ultimate margins toothed, abaxial faces lanate to floccose-tomentose, adaxial faces tomentulose and glabrescent or glabrous.
    Heads discoid, in racemiform to corymbiform or subumbelliform arrays.
    (broader in fruit).
    Phyllaries persistent, 8–25 in 1–2 series, erect to spreading, distinct, lanceolate to linear, margins scarious.
    Receptacles flat, foveolate, epaleate.
    Disc-florets 20–50, bisexual, fertile;
    corollas yellow to orange, tubes longer than cylindric to funnelform throats, lobes 5, spreading, lanceolate;
    style-branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices with deltoid to conic appendages.
    Cypselae cylindric, 12–15-veined, glabrous;
    pappi readily falling or fragile, of 120–140, white, barbellate bristles.