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Ligularia
Family:
Asteraceae
FNA
Resources
Theodore M. Barkley+ in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
Perennials,
15-150+ cm (glabrous or scattered-hairy, especially distally [arachno-tomentose]; roots fibrous).
Stems
usually 1, erect.
Leaves
basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate (petiole bases dilated, ± sheathing stems); blades (basal and proximal largest, cauline smaller distally) palmately [palmati-pinnately] nerved, orbiculate to reniform [elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate], margins dentate [denticulate, serrate, dissected], faces glabrous or sparsely pilosulous (mostly on nerves) [glaucous; arachno-tomentose].
Heads
radiate [discoid], in corymbiform [racemiform or spiciform] arrays.
Calyculi
0 [1-2+ bractlets].
Involucres
cylindric to campanulate, [3-]16-28 mm diam.
Phyllaries
persistent, [5-]8-13+ in 1-2 series, erect, distinct (margins interlocking) [connate at bases], mostly oblong or lanceolate to linear, subequal, margins usually ± scarious (tips greenish or reddish, not blackened).
Receptacles
flat to convex, smooth, epaleate.
Ray florets
[0 or 1-7] 8-14+, pistillate, fertile; corollas (laminae prominent, showy) orange to orange-yellow or brick-red [yellow].
Disc florets
[5-]12-100+, bisexual, fertile; corollas orange-yellow to orange, becoming brownish [yellow], tubes longer than cylindric throats, lobes 5, recurved, lance-linear; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices truncate or rounded-truncate.
Cypselae
(stramineous to brownish) ± ellipsoid [cylindric or fusiform], 5[-10]-ribbed or -nerved, glabrous;
pappi
persistent (fragile), of 40-100+, reddish [sordid, brownish, purplish], barbellate to barbellulate bristles ([shorter than] longer than cypselae).
x
= 30.
Species within inventory project:
Arizona Flora
Ligularia alpigena
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Ligularia amplectens
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Ligularia amplexicaulis
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Ligularia caloxantha
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Ligularia carpatica
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Ligularia cymbulifera
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Ligularia dentata
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Ligularia dictyoneura
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Ligularia dolichobotrys
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Ligularia fischeri
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Ligularia glauca
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Ligularia heterophylla
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Ligularia hodgsonii
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Ligularia japonica
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Ligularia kaialpina
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Ligularia kojimae
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Ligularia lamarum
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Ligularia lankongensis
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Ligularia macrophylla
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Ligularia melanocephala
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Ligularia narynensis
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Ligularia phyllocolea
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Ligularia przewalskii
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Ligularia retusa
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Ligularia sagitta
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Ligularia sibirica
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Ligularia stenocephala
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Ligularia subspicata
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Ligularia thomsonii
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Ligularia tongolensis
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Ligularia tussilaginea
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Ligularia veitchiana
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Ligularia virgaurea
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Ligularia websteri
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Ligularia wilsoniana
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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