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Gleason, H.A. & Cronquist, A. (1963) Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada D. van Nostrand Co, Inc. Princetown New Jersey.
Herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatifid or pinnately dissected. Inflorescence small or mid-sized heads at the end of branches or corymbiform. Heads radiate or discoid, rays white, pistillate; involucral bracts dry, 2-3 serrate; receptacle naked, hemispheric or more often conic, or elongate; disc-corolla yellow, 4-5 toothed. Fruit achenes, generally nerved on the margins and ventrally, nerveless dorsally; pappus a short crown or none. Worldwide: 20 species in temperate regions of Europe, America and Asia, also in southern Africa and naturalised in Australia. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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