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|accepted_name=Elephantopus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 814. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 355. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Elephant’s foot
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Vernonieae;Elephantopus
|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>[[Elephantopus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek elephantos, elephant, and pous, foot; probably alluding to rosettes of basal leaves in original species
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 64, 201
|treatment_page=page 202
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> (1–)2–8(–12+) dm; often rhizomatous or stoloniferous. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal or mostly cauline at flowering; sessile or petiolate, petioles ± winged (often clasping at bases); blades mostly elliptic, ovate, or obovate to lanceolate, oblanceolate, or spatulate (rarely orbiculate), bases ± cuneate, margins usually toothed (rarely entire), apices obtuse to acute, abaxial or both faces usually resin-gland-dotted. <b>Heads</b> ± discoid, sessile, not individually bracteate, in clusters of (1–)10–40+ in corymbiform-paniculiform arrays 6–15(–25) cm diam. (each cluster subtended by 2–3 ± deltate bracts). <b>Involucres</b> ± cylindric, 1–3+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 8 in 4 decussate pairs, the outer 4 ovate, inner 4 lanceolate, all ± chartaceous, margins entire, tips ± spinose to apiculate, abaxial faces of inner 4 usually dotted distally with resin glands. <b>Florets</b> (1–)4(–5+); corollas white or pink to purple, tubes longer than abruptly funnelform throats, lobes 5, lance-linear, unequal (abaxial sinus deepest). <b>Cypselae</b> ± clavate, sometimes ± flattened, 10-nerved or -ribbed, strigillose to hirsutulous; pappi persistent, of 5(–6), 1-aristate scales (look closely for squamiform, gradually to abruptly tapering base of each arista). <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mostly warm-temperate;subtropical;and tropical regions worldwide;sometimes as naturalized ruderals.
|discussion=<p>Species 12–15+ (4 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Pseudelephantopus spicatus</i> is sometimes treated as a member of <i>Elephantopus</i>.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=clonts1972a
|text=Clonts, J. A. 1972. A Revision of the Genus Elephantopus Including Orthopappus and Pseudelephantopus (Compositae). Ph.D. thesis. Mississippi State University.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves at flowering all or mostly cauline
|[[Elephantopus carolinianus|Elephantopus carolinianus]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves at flowering mostly basal (cauline leaves much smaller or wanting)
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Inner phyllaries 9–11+ mm; pappi 6–8 mm
|[[Elephantopus tomentosus|Elephantopus tomentosus]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Inner phyllaries 6–8 mm; pappi 3–4.5 mm
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Inner phyllaries ± densely strigose-villous with hairs (0.3–)0.5–1 mm; cypselae 3– 3.5 mm
|[[Elephantopus elatus|Elephantopus elatus]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Inner phyllaries sparsely strigose or hispidulous with hairs 0.05–0.3(–0.5) mm; cypselae 2.5–3 mm
|[[Elephantopus nudatus|Elephantopus nudatus]]
|}
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name=Elephantopus
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Mostly warm-temperate;subtropical;and tropical regions worldwide;sometimes as naturalized ruderals.
|reference=clonts1972a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_239.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Vernonieae
|genus=Elephantopus
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