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|accepted_name=Peucephyllum
|accepted_authority=A. Gray in W. H. Emory
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|place=2(1): 74. 1859
|year=1859
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae;Peucephyllum
|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 Chaenactidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Peucephyllum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek peuke, pine or fir, and phyllon, leaf
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 364, 365
|treatment_page=page 378
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or treelets, mostly 100–300 cm. <b>Stems</b> (1–5+), branched. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; alternate; sessile; blades linear-filiform, rarely with 1–2 lateral lobes, ultimate margins entire, faces glabrous, gland-dotted. <b>Heads</b> discoid, borne singly. <b>Involucres</b> turbinate to campanulate, 6–12 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent or tardily falling, 8–18 in ± 2 series (linear to lanceolate, outer intergrading with subtending leaves). <b>Receptacles</b> flat, pitted or knobby, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets 12–21, bisexual, fertile; corollas creamy yellow, distally purplish (stipitate-glandular), tubes shorter than cylindric throats, lobes 5, erect, deltate (style-branch appendages rounded-truncate, papillate). <b>Cypselae</b> obconic to obpyramidal, hirsute (hairs tawny to reddish); pappi persistent, of 30–60 bristles subtending 15–20 subulate-aristate scales, or of ca. 120 bristles. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Peucephyllum
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=A. Gray in W. H. Emory
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Linda Ann Vorobik
|distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|publication year=1859
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae
|genus=Peucephyllum
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