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|accepted_name=Pericallis
|accepted_authority=D. Don in R. Sweet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in R. Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard., ser.
|place=2, 3: plate 228. 1834
|year=1834
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Pericallis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pericallis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek, peri, very, and callos, beautiful, used by Homer for “very beautiful”
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 540, 541
|treatment_page=page 607
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>[subshrubs or shrubs], mostly 20–40(–100) [150+] cm. <b>Stems</b> usually 1, erect or spreading (branched distally). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate (petiole bases sometimes expanded and/or clasping); blades palmately nerved, cordate-deltate to orbiculate or polygonally lobed, margins dentate to denticulate, faces sparsely hairy. <b>Heads</b> radiate, usually in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays, rarely borne singly. <b>Calyculi</b> 0. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric to urceolate, mostly 3–8+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, mostly 13 or 21 in (1–)2 series, erect, distinct, ± linear, subequal, margins scarious (tips green to brown or reddish, not blackened). <b>Receptacles</b> flat, foveolate (socket margins membranous), epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets ± 13 or ± 21, pistillate, fertile; corollas whitish or bluish, pinkish, purplish, or reddish (often proximally pale and distally darker). <b>Disc</b> florets 40–60+, bisexual, fertile; corollas ochroleucous, white, or purplish to reddish or pinkish, tubes longer than funnelform throats, lobes 5, erect or reflexed, deltate to lanceolate; style branches stigmatic in 2 lines, apices truncate [with deltate appendages]. <b>Cypselae</b> ± ellipsoid (sometimes ± compressed), 4–5-ribbed, glabrous or puberulent; pappi readily falling, usually of 20–40+, white, barbellate bristles (discs), sometimes 2 setiform to subulate scales or 0 (rays). <b>x</b> = 30.</span><!--

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|distribution=Macaronesia (Canary Islands;Azores;Madeira).
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 15 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The taxonomic status and nomenclature of <i>Pericallis</i> have been treated by B. Nordenstam (1978); the origins of the florists’ cineraria have been reviewed by T. M. Barkley (1966).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=barkley1966a
|text=Barkley, T. M. 1966. A review of the origin and development of the florists’ cineraria, Senecio cruentus. Econ. Bot. 20: 386–395.
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|id=swenson2003a
|text=Swenson, U. and U. Manns. 2003. Phylogeny of Pericallis (Asteraceae): A total evidence approach reappraising the double origin of woodiness. Taxon 52: 533–546.
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name=Pericallis
|author=Theodore M. Barkley†
|authority=D. Don in R. Sweet
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Macaronesia (Canary Islands;Azores;Madeira).
|introduced=true
|reference=barkley1966a;swenson2003a
|publication title=in R. Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard., ser.
|publication year=1834
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Pericallis
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