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|accepted_name=Ismelia
|accepted_authority=Cassini in F. Cuvier
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|place=2, 41: 40. 1826
|year=1826
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae;Ismelia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ismelia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Etymology unknown
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 30, 488
|treatment_page=page 552
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> 10–30(–50+) cm. <b>Stems</b> 1, erect, usually branched distally, glabrous or sparsely hairy (hairs basifixed). <b>Leaves</b> mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades obovate to oblong (bases sometimes clasping), usually 2-pinnately lobed, ultimate margins usually dentate, rarely entire, faces glabrous. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly or in 2s or 3s. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric or broader, 12–25+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 20–30+ in 2–3 series, distinct, ovate or obovate to lance-deltate or lanceolate (± carinate), unequal, margins and apices scarious (tips of inner often ± dilated). <b>Receptacles</b> convex to conic, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 13–21+, pistillate, fertile; corollas proximally white or red to purple, distally yellow or white, laminae ± linear. <b>Disc</b> florets 80–150+, bisexual, fertile; corollas proximally ochroleucous, distally red to purple, tubes cylindric (stipitate-glandular or gland-dotted), throats funnelform, lobes 5, deltate. <b>Cypselae</b> dimorphic: outer 3-angled (each angle ± winged, wings not spine-tipped); inner compressed, adaxial angles ± winged (wings not spine-tipped); ribs 0, faces glabrous (pericarps without myxogenic cells or resin sacs); pappi 0. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=n Africa;widely adventive elsewhere.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Ismelia
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Cassini in F. Cuvier
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=n Africa;widely adventive elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1826
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae
|genus=Ismelia
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