Tagetes Linnaeus (Q2967)

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Tagetes is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Tageteae
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Tagetes Linnaeus
Tagetes is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Tageteae

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    Tagetes Linnaeus
    Tagetes
    Linnaeus
    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
    Marigold (English)
    Tropical and warm-temperate America
    especially Mexico
    in Old World
    Annuals, perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs [perennials], mostly 10–80 (–200) cm.
    Stems erect, branched distally or ± throughout.
    petiolate or sessile;
    blades mostly lanceolate to oblanceolate overall, usually 1–3-pinnately lobed or pinnatisect, ultimate margins toothed or entire, faces glabrous or hairy (oil-glands scattered and/or submarginal).
    Heads radiate or discoid, borne singly or in ± corymbiform arrays.
    Involucres narrowly cylindric or fusiform to turbinate or broadly campanulate, 1–12+ mm diam.
    Phyllaries persistent, 3–21+ in 1–2 series (connate to 7/8+ their lengths, usually streaked and/or dotted with oil-glands).
    Receptacles convex to conic, smooth or finely pitted, epaleate.
    Ray-florets 0 or 1–8 (–13+) (to 100+ in “double” cultivars), pistillate, fertile (except “double” cultivars);
    corollas yellow or orange, redbrown (with or without yellow/orange), or white.
    Disc-florets 6–120+, bisexual, fertile;
    corollas greenish yellow to orange, sometimes tipped with red or redbrown, tubes much longer than or about equaling funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate to lance-linear (equal or 2 sinuses deeper than others).
    Cypselae narrowly obpyramidal or fusiform-terete, sometimes weakly flattened, glabrous or hairy;
    pappi persistent, of 2–5 (–10) dissimilar, distinct or connate scales in ± 1 series: 0–5+ oblong to lanceolate, erose-truncate or laciniate plus 0–2 (–5) longer, subulate to aristate.