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|accepted_name=Gynura
|accepted_authority=Cassini in F. Cuvier
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|place=2, 34: 391. 1825
|year=1825
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Gynura
|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>[[Gynura]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek, presumably gyne, a female, and ura, tail, perhaps alluding to style branches
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 540, 542
|treatment_page=page 610
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>[subshrubs, vines], 20–100[300+] cm (± velutinous or villous [hispid, puberulent, glabrous], hairs often purplish). <b>Stems</b> usually 1, weakly erect, spreading, or clambering (branched). <b>Leaves</b> [basal and/or] cauline; alternate; petiolate (petiole bases sometimes expanded, weakly clasping) or sessile; blades pinnately nerved, ovate or elliptic to rhombic [oblanceolate or lanceolate to linear], margins [entire or subentire] toothed [coarsely pinnate], faces velutinous to villous [glabrous, hispid, puberulent]. <b>Heads</b> discoid, usually in corymbiform or paniculiform arrays, sometimes borne singly. <b>Calyculi</b> of 3–8+ bractlets. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric to campanulate [urceolate], [3–]8–12[–15+] mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, [8] ± 13 in (1–)2+ series, erect (reflexed in fruit), distinct (margins interlocking), linear, subequal, margins scarious. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, foveolate (knobby in fruit), epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets [20–]30–80+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow or orange to brick-red [purplish, ochroleucous, or white], tubes longer than funnelform throats, lobes 5, erect or reflexed, deltate to lanceolate; style branches stigmatic in 2 lines, apices with (orange or reddish) ± filiform appendages (hispidulous, 1–2 mm). <b>Cypselae</b> ± columnar or prismatic, 5–10-angled or -ribbed, glabrous [hairy]; pappi persistent or fragile, of 60–80+, white, smooth or barbellulate bristles. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=tropical Asia;Africa (including Madagascar);sw Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 40 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Some species of <i>Gynura</i> are important in the horticultural trade; abundant literature is accessible through gardening compendia.</p>
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name=Gynura
|author=Theodore M. Barkley†
|authority=Cassini in F. Cuvier
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=tropical Asia;Africa (including Madagascar);sw Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1825
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_1367.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Gynura
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