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|accepted_name=Cyanthillium
|accepted_authority=Blume
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.,
|place=889. 1826
|year=1826
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Vernonieae;Cyanthillium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Vernonieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cyanthillium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Origin uncertain; probably Greek cyanos, blue, and anthyllion, little flower, alluding to corollas
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 67, 201
|treatment_page=page 204
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>(perhaps persisting), 2–6(–12+) dm. <b>Leaves</b> mostly cauline (at flowering); petioles ± winged; blades ovate to trullate, deltate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, bases ± cuneate, margins serrate, apices rounded to acute, abaxial faces ± hirtellous to densely piloso-strigillose, resin-gland-dotted, adaxial faces ± scabrellous or glabrate. <b>Heads</b> discoid, ± pedunculate, not subtended by foliaceous bracts, (12–)40–100+ in ± corymbiform arrays (6–)10–15+ cm diam. <b>Involucres</b> ± campanulate to turbinate or hemispheric, 4–5 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 24–32+ in 3–4+ series, the outer subulate to lanceolate, inner ± lanceolate, all ± chartaceous, margins entire, tips apiculate to spinose, abaxial faces ± strigillose, ± resin-gland-dotted. <b>Florets</b> 13–20(–24+); corollas lavender to pink or purplish, tubes longer than funnelform throats, lobes 5, lance-linear, ± equal. <b>Cypselae</b> ± columnar, not ribbed, ± strigillose; pappi of ± 20 ± persistent outer scales, plus ± 20 caducous inner bristles. <b>x</b> = 9 (18?).</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;probably paleotropical in origin;now widely established in tropical and warm-temperate regions as naturalized ruderals.
|discussion=<p>Species 1–2 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Cyanthillium
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Blume
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Fla.;probably paleotropical in origin;now widely established in tropical and warm-temperate regions as naturalized ruderals.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.,
|publication year=1826
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Vernonieae
|genus=Cyanthillium
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