Hypochaeris Linnaeus (Q3118)

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

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    taxon/id/Hypochaeris Linnaeus
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    Hypochaeris Linnaeus
    Hypochaeris
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Cat’s ear (English)
    swine’s succory (English)
    South America
    s Europe
    n Africa
    Stems 1–15, erect, branched or unbranched, glabrate or coarsely hirsute.
    petiolate or sessile;
    blades oblanceolate to oblong or elliptic, margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed (faces glabrous or hirsute).
    Heads borne singly or in loose, cymiform, paniculiform, or corymbiform arrays.
    Peduncles slightly inflated distally, minutely bracteate.
    Calyculi 0 (or indistinguishable from phyllaries).
    (12–25 mm in fruit).
    Phyllaries 20–30 in 3–4 series, unequal, linear-lanceolate, glabrous, glabrate, or coarsely hirsute.
    Receptacles flat, slightly pitted, paleate;
    paleae linear to subulate, scarious.
    Florets 20–100+;
    corollas usually yellow or orange, sometimes grayish green or reddish abaxially, rarely white, (not deliquescent).
    Cypselae monomorphic (all beaked) or dimorphic (outer truncate, inner beaked), usually brown to golden, bodies ellipsoid or fusiform, ribs 4–5 or 10, faces ± muricate, otherwise glabrous;
    pappi persistent, of 40–60+, white to tan bristles in 1 (all plumose) or in 2 series (outer barbellate, shorter than plumose inner).