Gynura Cass.

Gynura (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae

Characteristics

Perennial herbs, erect or climbing. Leaves alternate, simple, dentate or lobed. Capitula rarely solitary, usually in terminal corymbose cymes, discoid. Involucre with calyculus; receptacle epaleate. Florets with the upper part campanulate or infundibuliform. Anthers obtuse or slightly sagittate at base, with ovate or lanceolate apical appendage. Prominent style-arms long, exserted, gradually tapered, sometimes coloured. Achenes ribbed; pappus of many fine bristles.
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Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves sessile, pinnately veined. Capitula discoid, pedunculate, calyculate; involucral bracts free. Florets: corolla limbs yellow, orange, red, purplish, white or greenish; anthers ecaudate; style branches ±erect, truncate, without crown of papillae, with terminal appendage long, tapering. Achenes homomorphic, narrowly obloid. Pappus ?caducous.
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