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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhagadiolus
|accepted_authority=Jussieu
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl.,
|place=168. 1789
|year=1789
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Rhagadiolus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhagadiolus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek rhagado, crack or split, and - olus, diminutive, perhaps alluding to gaps between margins of enfolding phyllaries
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 214, 218
|treatment_page=page 300
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> 5–60+ cm; taprooted. <b>Stems</b> usually 1, erect, branched distally, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline (mostly cauline at flowering); basal sessile or ± petiolate, distal ± sessile; blades ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate or linear (often runcinate), margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed (faces glabrous or ± hispid). <b>Heads</b> in ± corymbiform arrays (terminal heads often surpassed by others). <b>Peduncles</b> not inflated, rarely bracteolate. <b>Calyculi</b> of 5, ovate to deltate bractlets. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to cylindric, 2–4+ mm diam. (larger in fruit). <b>Phyllaries</b> (3–)5–8 in 1 series (closely enfolding ovaries/cypselae of subtended florets; ± patent in fruit), linear, equal, margins often scarious, apices acuminate (abaxially glabrous or ± hispid to scabrous). <b>Receptacles</b> ± flat, smooth or ± pitted, glabrous, epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 5–6(–10+); corollas yellow. <b>Cypselae</b> brownish, heteromorphic; outer (tardily falling with enfolding phyllary) ± terete, narrowed distally, straight to arcuate, not beaked, ribs 0, faces glabrous; inner (readily falling) terete, straight to ± coiled, faces glabrous or closely hirtellous; pappi 0. <b>x</b> = 5.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 1 or 2 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Rhagadiolus
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Jussieu
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Marjorie C. Leggitt
|distribution=Europe;Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Pl.,
|publication year=1789
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Rhagadiolus
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