Mycelis Cassini in F. Cuvier (Q3147)

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Mycelis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cichorieae
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Mycelis Cassini in F. Cuvier
Mycelis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cichorieae

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    taxon/id/Mycelis Cassini
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    Mycelis Cassini
    Mycelis
    Cassini
    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
    Stems usually 1, usually erect, branched distally, glabrous.
    Leaves basal and cauline (mostly cauline at flowering);
    proximal ± petiolate, distal ± sessile;
    blades oblanceolate to spatulate (bases often clasping), margins pinnately lobed (lyrate to runcinate, terminal lobes ± deltate) and ± sharply dentate (faces glabrous).
    Heads in paniculiform to thyrsiform arrays.
    Peduncles not inflated distally, sometimes bracteolate.
    Calyculi of 2–4 (often spreading to patent), ± deltate to lanceolate bractlets in 1 series.
    Involucres narrowly cylindric, 1–2+ mm diam.
    Phyllaries (4–) 5 in 1 (–2) series (reflexed in fruit), linear, equal, margins little, if at all, scarious, apices rounded.
    Receptacles flat to convex, weakly pitted, glabrous, epaleate.
    Cypselae: bodies blackish to reddish, compressed, obovoid to lanceoloid, beaks whitish, stout, ribs 5–7 on each face, faces scabrellous;
    pappi persistent (borne on discs at tips of beaks), white;
    outer of 12–20+, minute setae, inner of 60–80+, white, subequal, barbellulate bristles in 1–2+ series.