WorldFloraDB - Tussilago

Characteristics

Heads radiate, the rays yellow, pistillate and fertile, numerous in several series; invol a single series of equal, ± herbaceous bracts, sometimes with a few basal bracteoles; receptacle flat, naked; central fls sterile, with undivided, merely lobed style; anthers entire or minutely sagittate; achenes linear, 5–10-ribbed; pappus of numerous capillary bristles, that of the sterile fls ± reduced; perennial herb with large basal lvs, scaly-bracted stems (the bracts alternate), and medium-sized solitary heads, blooming before the basal lvs develop. Monospecific.

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Perennial herb. Lvs simple, palmately toothed and lobed, mostly basal; cauline lvs alternate, much reduced and scale-like. Capitula solitary; involucral bracts in 1-2 rows, with few or 0 supplementary bracts subtending base of involucre. Receptacle flat or slightly convex; scales 0. Outer florets ♀, ligulate, in several rows; ligules yellow; inner florets functionally ♂, tubular. Achenes narrow-cylindric, 5-ribbed, glabrous; pappus denticulate.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
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