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|accepted_name=Sphagneticola
|accepted_authority=O. Hoffmann
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin
|place=3: 36. 1900
|year=1900
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae;Sphagneticola
|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>[[Sphagneticola]]</div></div>
|etymology=Evidently from Latin sphagnum, a moss, and cola, dwelling in, perhaps alluding to usually wet habitats
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 65, 66
|treatment_page=page 126
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> mostly 30–200 cm. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, branched ± throughout (rooting at nodes, usually ± succulent). <b>Leaves</b> cauline; opposite; sessile or petiolate; blades (usually 3-nerved) mostly trullate to lanceolate, often obscurely 3-lobed, bases ± cuneate, margins entire or toothed, faces usually scabrous. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly. <b>Involucres</b> obconic, 6–12 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 12–15 in 2–3 series (outer larger, more foliaceous than inner). <b>Receptacles</b> convex to conic, paleate (paleae conduplicate, scarious, acute). <b>Ray</b> florets 4–10+, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow to orange. <b>Disc</b> florets 30–60+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow to orange, tubes shorter than campanulate throats, lobes 5, lance-triangular. <b>Cypselae</b> strongly biconvex to plumply 3–4-angled (epidermes usually thick, corky, smooth or tuberculate, apices rostrate, each bearing central neck or boss, rostra obscure in mature fruits); pappi 0, or persistent, coroniform (erose or fimbrillate to lacerate, 0.1–0.6 mm). <b>x</b> = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Bermuda;Central America;South America;Asia;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 4 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
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name=Sphagneticola
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=O. Hoffmann
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Bee F. Gunn
|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Bermuda;Central America;South America;Asia;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin
|publication year=1900
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_308.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae
|genus=Sphagneticola
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