Adenocaulon Hooker (Q3231)

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Adenocaulon is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Mutisieae
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Adenocaulon Hooker
Adenocaulon is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Mutisieae

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    Adenocaulon Hooker
    Adenocaulon
    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
    North America
    Central America
    s South America
    e Asia
    petiolate (proximal) or sessile (distal);
    blades ovate to ± triangular [suborbiculate], bases mostly truncate to cordate or hastate, margins coarsely dentate or lobulate to denticulate or entire, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial faces glabrate (distalmost leaves often linear or scalelike).
    Heads disciform, borne in open paniculiform arrays.
    Involucres cuplike to saucer-shaped (inconspicuous), 4–8+ mm diam.
    Phyllaries in 1–2 series, ovate to oblong, ± equal (reflexed in fruit), apices obtuse.
    Receptacles convex, smooth, glabrous, epaleate.
    Florets: outer 3–7 florets pistillate, corollas white or ochroleucous, obscurely zygomorphic (± 2-lipped; staminodes 4–5, minute; style-branches relatively short);
    inner 2–10 florets functionally staminate, corollas white or ochroleucous, actinomorphic (lobes 5);
    anther basal appendages (relatively short) entire, apical appendages narrowly triangular;
    style-branches none (apices of styles obtuse to acute).
    Cypselae clavate to obovoid, not beaked, ± ribbed, faces distally stipitate-glandular;