Crepis Linnaeus (Q3072)

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Crepis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cichorieae
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Crepis Linnaeus
Crepis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cichorieae

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    taxon/id/Crepis Linnaeus
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    Crepis Linnaeus
    Crepis
    Linnaeus
    Weber, W.A. 1984. New names and new combinations, principally in the Rocky Mountain flora--IV. Phytologia 55 (1): 1-11.
    accepted
    Hawksbeard (English)
    crépis (English)
    North America
    Eurasia
    Africa
    nearly worldwide
    Stems 1–20+, erect to decumbent, simple (sometimes scapiform) or branched, usually striate, glabrous or hairy, often densely hispid or setose (hairs often stipitate-glandular).
    petiolate (at least basal, petioles ± winged);
    basal blades mostly elliptic, ovate, or lanceolate to linear, or spatulate to oblanceolate, often lyrate or runcinate, margins entire, dentate, serrate, toothed, or pinnately lobed, lobes sometimes toothed;
    cauline usually present, lobed or entire, usually reduced in size and lobing distally.
    Heads (erect) usually in cymiform, corymbiform, or paniculiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.
    Peduncles not inflated distally, not bracteate.
    Calyculi of 5–12, reduced, subulate to lanceolate or deltate bractlets in ± 1 series, mostly unequal, glabrous, tomentulose, or setose.
    Involucres cylindric to campanulate (sometimes becoming turbinate in fruit), 4–15 mm diam.
    Phyllaries 5–18 in 1–2 series, lanceolate, equal or subequal, (bases becoming thickened and keeled, keels sometimes pronounced in fruit) margins green to yellowish, often scarious, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous, tomentose, or setose, sometimes stipitate-glandular, adaxial glabrous or with appressed hairs.
    Receptacles flat or convex, usually pitted, glabrous or hairy, epaleate [paleate, paleae narrow, thin].
    Florets 5–100+;
    corollas usually yellow or orange, sometimes white, pink, or reddish.
    Cypselae monomorphic or dimorphic, yellow, brown, green, red, and/or black, subcylindric or fusiform, terete or subterete, usually curved, apices tapered or beaked, ribs 10–20, sometimes spiculate-roughened, faces glabrous or hispidulous;
    pappi persistent or falling, of 80–150, usually distinct, sometimes basally connate, white to tawny, coarse to fine, ± equal (or outer shorter), barbellulate bristles in 1–2 series.
    x = 3, 4, 5, 6, 11.