Tussilago Linnaeus (Q2962)

From Canadian Flora Commons
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Tussilago is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Senecioneae
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Tussilago Linnaeus
Tussilago is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Senecioneae

    Statements

    taxon/id/Tussilago Linnaeus
    0 references
    Tussilago Linnaeus
    Tussilago
    Linnaeus
    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
    Coltsfoot (English)
    temperate Eurasia
    n Africa
    Stems usually 1, erect (scapiform, not branched).
    petiolate (petiole lengths 1–2 times blades) or sessile;
    blades (basal) palmately nerved, orbiculate to polygonal or lobed (cauline leaves lanceovate to linear, bractlike or scalelike), margins denticulate, abaxial faces gray-tomentose, adaxial tomentulose, glabrescent.
    Heads (erect at flowering, nodding in fruit) radiate, borne singly.
    Calyculi 0 (or indistinct, bractlets intergrading with bractlike cauline leaves).
    (larger in fruit).
    Phyllaries persistent, usually ± 21 in (1–) 2 series, erect, distinct, lance-linear to linear, subequal, margins scarious (apices greenish or yellow-green).
    Receptacles convex, foveolate (socket margins ± membranous), epaleate.
    Ray-florets 100–200 (–300+), pistillate, fertile;
    corollas yellow (drying pinkish).
    Disc-florets (20–) 30–40, functionally staminate;
    corollas yellowish, tubes longer than campanulate throats, lobes 5, erect, linear;
    styles not divided.
    Cypselae narrowly cylindric or ± prismatic, 5 (–10) -ribbed, glabrous;
    pappi readily falling or fragile, of 60–100+, white, barbellulate or smooth bristles.