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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Phoebanthus
|accepted_authority=S. F. Blake
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=51: 520. 1916
|year=1916
}}
|common_names=False sunflower
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae;Phoebanthus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Phoebanthus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek phoebus, the sun, and anthos, flower
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 65, 66
|treatment_page=page 113
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 40–100+ cm (aerial stems from relatively slender, horizontal tubers). <b>Stems</b> erect, branched mostly distally (among heads, leafy). <b>Leaves</b> cauline; all opposite, or proximal opposite and distal alternate, or all alternate; sessile; blades (usually 1-nerved) linear-filiform or linear to linear-lanceolate, bases ± cuneate or rounded, margins entire (revolute), faces scabrous (adaxial) and sparsely hispid-scabrous, gland-dotted as well. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly or (2–6) in open, ± corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric to campanulate, 10–20 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 20–40+ in 2–3+ series (green, subequal, herbaceous, strigillose to hispid). <b>Receptacles</b> convex, paleate (paleae tan, conduplicate, trilobed or tricuspidate). <b>Ray</b> florets 10–20, neuter; corollas yellow (apices 2–4-lobed). <b>Disc</b> florets 40–100+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than narrowly campanulate throats, lobes 5, triangular. <b>Cypselae</b> (purplish black) obpyramidal, slightly compressed; pappi 0, or persistent or fragile, of 1–2 lacerate scales (over cypsela shoulders) plus 0–6 lacerate or bristlelike shorter scales. <b>x</b> = 17.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, the larger 3–7 mm wide; phyllaries appressed
|[[Phoebanthus grandiflorus|Phoebanthus grandiflorus]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves linear-filiform, the larger 0.5–2 mm wide; phyllaries spreading
|[[Phoebanthus tenuifolius|Phoebanthus tenuifolius]]
|}
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name=Phoebanthus
|author=Edward E. Schilling
|authority=S. F. Blake
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Marjorie C. Leggitt
|distribution=se United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1916
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae
|genus=Phoebanthus
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