Picris Linnaeus (Q3152)

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

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    taxon/id/Picris Linnaeus
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    Picris Linnaeus
    Picris
    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
    Oxtongue (English)
    Europe
    n Africa
    also in tropical Africa
    Australia
    Stems usually 1, erect, branched distally, hirsute to hispid or setose (hair tips often 2 [–4] -hooked).
    Leaves basal and cauline (mostly cauline at flowering);
    basal ± petiolate, distal sessile;
    blades oblong, ovate, or lanceolate to oblanceolate or linear, margins entire or sinuate-dentate to pinnately lobed (faces hirsute to hispid or setose, hair tips 2 [–4] -hooked).
    Heads usually in ± corymbiform arrays.
    Peduncles not inflated distally, sometimes bracteate.
    Calyculi of 8–13+, lanceolate to lance-linear bractlets (sometimes ± intergrading with phyllaries).
    (sometimes larger in fruit).
    Phyllaries (8–) 13+ in 1–2 series (reflexed in fruit), lanceolate to lance-linear (± flat or navicular proximally, sometimes each ± enfolding its subtended floret), equal, margins often scarious, apices acute.
    Receptacles flat to convex, ± pitted, glabrous, epaleate.
    Florets 30–100+;
    corollas yellow, often reddish abaxially.
    Cypselae homomorphic [heteromorphic], reddish-brown [dark-brown], bodies ± fusiform [compressed-ellipsoid], not beaked [beaks ± developed], ribs 5–10, faces transversely rugulose, glabrous;
    pappi falling, of 30–45+, whitish to stramineous, subequal, barbellulate to plumose bristles [scales] in 2–3+ series (basally connate, falling together).