Luina Bentham (Q2888)

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Luina is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Senecioneae
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Luina Bentham
Luina is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Senecioneae

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    taxon/id/Luina Bentham
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    Luina Bentham
    Luina
    Bentham
    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 1–5+, erect to spreading.
    sessile or petiolate;
    blades palmately (± parallel) nerved, ovate to lanceolate, margins entire or toothed, abaxial faces tomentose to lanate, adaxial faces tomentulose (gray-green) or glabrous (green).
    Heads discoid, in corymbiform to subumbelliform arrays.
    Involucres ± turbinate, 3–8 mm diam.
    Phyllaries persistent, 6–14 in 1–2 series, erect, distinct, ovate to lanceolate or linear, subequal, margins ± scarious.
    Receptacles flat to convex, smooth or foveolate, epaleate.
    Disc-florets 11–26, bisexual, fertile;
    corollas creamy to bright-yellow, tubes longer than cylindric to funnelform throats, lobes 5, erect or spreading to recurved, deltate to lanceolate;
    style-branches stigmatic in 2 lines (joined near tips), apices rounded-truncate.
    Cypselae terete to fusiform, 9-nerved or 12–15-nerved, glabrous or strigose;
    pappi persistent, of 80–125, white, barbellulate bristles.