Lapsana Linnaeus (Q3135)

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

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    taxon/id/Lapsana Linnaeus
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    Lapsana Linnaeus
    Lapsana
    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
    Nipplewort (English)
    Stems 1, erect, simple or branched, glabrate to sparsely or densely pilose, hairs often stipitate-glandular.
    narrowly winged-petiolate;
    blades ovate to suborbiculate (thin), margins entire, dentate, or lyrate-pinnatifid proximally (terminal lobes larger than laterals, faces glabrate to sparsely hirsute; distal sessile, lanceolate, reduced).
    Heads in open, corymbiform to thyrsiform arrays.
    Peduncles (slender) slightly inflated distally, ebracteate.
    Calyculi of 4–5 subulate or scalelike, glabrous bractlets.
    Involucres cylindric to campanulate, 2–5 mm diam.
    Phyllaries 8–10 in 1 series, linear-oblong, subequal, (strongly keeled) margins green, not scarious, apices acute, faces glabrous.
    Receptacles flat, smooth, glabrous, epaleate.
    Cypselae dimorphic (outer much longer than inner), tan to golden brown, subcylindric, curved, terete to slightly compressed, not beaked, ± 20-ribbed, glabrous;