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|accepted_name=Hedypnois
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|place=4, vol. 2. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Hedypnois
|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>[[Hedypnois]]</div></div>
|etymology=Ancient name for an endive-like plant, attributed to Pliny
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 218
|treatment_page=page 302
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> (5–)10–60+ cm; taprooted. <b>Stems</b> usually 1, erect, branched distally, ± hispid to setose (hair tips often forked). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; basal ± petiolate, distal sessile; blades lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, oblong, or ovate, margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed (faces ± hispid). <b>Heads</b> borne singly or in loose, corymbiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> ± inflated distally, not bracteate. <b>Calyculi</b> of 3–10+, deltate to lanceolate or lance-linear bractlets. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to cylindric, 3–12 mm diam. (larger, ± globose in fruit). <b>Phyllaries</b> 5–13+ in 1 series, linear-navicular (± keeled, each ± enfolding subtended ovary or cypsela), subequal, margins little, if at all, scarious, apices acuminate. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, ± pitted, glabrous, epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 8–30+; corollas yellow (often reddish proximally, greenish abaxially). <b>Cypselae</b> dark brown to black, cylindric to fusiform (usually ± arcuate), not beaked, ribs 12–15, faces ± scabrous or barbed; pappi persistent, whitish; on outer cypselae often coroniform (distinct or connate, erose to fimbriate scales); on inner cypselae 0–5+, cuneate to lanceolate or subulate outer scales plus 5+, lance-aristate to subulate-aristate, inner scales. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Hedypnois
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Miller
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|publication year=1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Hedypnois
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