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|accepted_name=Dicranocarpus
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|place=5: 322. 1854
|year=1854
}}
|common_names=Pitchfork
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Coreopsidinae;Dicranocarpus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Coreopsidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dicranocarpus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek di -, two, kranos, skull or helmet, and karpos, fruit; probably alluding to the “two-horned” cypselae
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 184
|treatment_page=page 219
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> 10–70 cm (± succulent; taprooted). <b>Stems</b> 1, erect, branched dichotomously, divaricate (drying brittle). <b>Leaves</b> mostly cauline; opposite; obscurely petiolate; blades 1(–2)-pedately or -pinnately lobed (lobes filiform), ultimate margins entire, faces glabrous. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly or (2–4) in cymiform arrays. <b>Calyculi</b> of (0–)1–3+ erect, linear to subulate, herbaceous bractlets. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric to obconic, 1.5–3 mm diam. (larger in fruit). <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 3–6 in 1(–2) series, lance-ovate to lanceolate, scarious, brown-nerved. <b>Receptacles</b> slightly convex, paleate; paleae linear to subulate, scarious. <b>Ray</b> florets 3–6, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow. <b>Disc</b> florets 3–4+, functionally staminate; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than throats, lobes 5, triangular. <b>Cypselae</b> obcompressed, oblong to linear, ± ribbed, smooth or tuberculate, glabrous or densely papillate; pappi persistent, of 2 spreading to recurved, smooth or proximally papillate awns. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Dicranocarpus
|author=Justin W. Allison
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Linny Heagy
|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|publication year=1854
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Coreopsidinae
|genus=Dicranocarpus
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