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|accepted_name=Nothocalaïs
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|place=2: 54. 1886
|year=1886
}}
|common_names=False agoseris or dandelion
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Microseris sect. Nothocalaïs
|authority=A. Gray
|publication_title=in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer.
|publication_place=1(2): 420. 1884
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Nothocalaïs
|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>[[Nothocalaïs]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek notho -, false, and Calaïs, a synonym of Microseris
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 217, 322, 334, 338
|treatment_page=page 335
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 3–45 cm; taprooted, with caudices often multicipital (taproots thick, fleshy, with blackish periderm, lateral rootlets often borne in clusters on knoblike projections). <b>Stems</b> 1–5+, erect, scapiform, naked (rarely with 1–3 bracteate nodes near base in <i>N. troximoides</i> and <i>N. nigrescens</i>), glabrous or white-villous, especially near heads. <b>Leaves</b> basal; petiolate (bases attenuate or not); blades linear to oblanceolate, margins usually entire (often pinnately lobed in <i>N. alpestris</i>), sometimes undulate (usually white-ciliolate in <i>N. cuspidata</i> and <i>N. troximoides</i>; faces glabrous or lightly villous). <b>Heads</b> borne singly (erect, liguliferous). <b>Peduncles</b> not inflated distally, not bracteate. <b>Calyculi</b> 0. <b>Involucres</b> broadly to narrowly ovoid, campanulate at flowering, 5–20 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 8–50 in 2–5 series, (often longitudinally striped or finely dotted with red or purple) lanceolate to ovate, equal or unequal (outer shorter), herbaceous (thin), midnerves inconspicuous, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or white-villous. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, pitted, glabrous, epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 13–100; corollas yellow, often reddish abaxially (much surpassing phyllaries in flowering, tubes hairy). <b>Cypselae</b> brown or gray, narrowly columnar to fusiform, usually narrowed distally, not beaked, ribs ca. 10, glabrous or distally scabrous; pappi fragile, of 10–80, distinct, lustrous, white, ± equal, smooth to barbellulate bristles or aristate scales. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=c;w North America.
|discussion=<p>Species 4 (4 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Because pappi of <i>Nothocalaïs</i> taxa vary from capillary bristles to aristate scales, the species were earlier assigned to either <i>Agoseris</i> or <i>Microseris</i>. The totality of morphologic evidence supports the unity of the genus, as well as its segregation from <i>Agoseris</i> and <i>Microseris</i> (K. L. Chambers 1955, 1957). According to recent phylogenetic studies based on chloroplast DNA (R. K. Jansen et al. 1991b; J. Whitton et al. 1995), <i>Nothocalaïs</i> is most closely related to <i>Uropappus</i> and <i>Agoseris</i>, the three genera together comprising a clade sister to <i>Microseris</i>.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=chambers1955a
|text=Chambers, K. L. 1955. A biosystematic study of the annual species of Microseris. Contr. Dudley Herb. 4: 207–312.
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Pappi of 30–50 barbellulate bristles; leaf margins usually coarsely toothed or pinnately lobed, sometimes entire; phyllaries glabrous, evenly and minutely purple-dotted; subalpine, Cascade Range, Klamath Mountains, and (rarely) Sierra Nevada
|[[Nothocalaïs alpestris|Nothocalaïs alpestris]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Pappi of 10–30 aristate scales or of 40–80 intergradent, smooth to barbellulate bristles and ± subulate to setiform scales; leaf margins entire, sometimes undulate; phyllaries glabrous or villous, sometimes purple-dotted; Great Plains, n, mid Rocky Mountains, Columbia-Snake Rivers Plateau, n Great Basin
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pappi of 40–80 intergradent, smooth to barbellulate bristles and ± subulate to setiform scales; Great Plains
|[[Nothocalaïs cuspidata|Nothocalaïs cuspidata]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pappi of 10–30 aristate scales; n, mid Rocky Mountains, Columbia-Snake Rivers Plateau, n Great Basin
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, margins plane, apices acute; phyllaries broadly lanceolate to ovate, apices acute to acuminate, faces usually glabrous, minutely purple-dotted; n, mid Rocky Mountains
|[[Nothocalaïs nigrescens|Nothocalaïs nigrescens]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves mostly linear to linear-lanceolate, margins often undulate, apices acuminate; phyllaries lanceolate, apices acuminate, faces glabrous or villous especially on midnerves, margins often ciliolate, green or with purple-lined midnerves, sometimes also minutely purple- dotted. n Great Basin, Columbia-Snake Rivers Plateau
|[[Nothocalaïs troximoides|Nothocalaïs troximoides]]
|}
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name=Nothocalaïs
|author=Kenton L. Chambers
|authority=(A. Gray) Greene
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Microseris sect. Nothocalaïs
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|distribution=c;w North America.
|reference=chambers1955a
|publication title=Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|publication year=1886
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Nothocalaïs
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