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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Yermo
|accepted_authority=Dorn
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=38: 199, fig. 1. 1991
|year=1991
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Yermo
|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>[[Yermo]]</div></div>
|etymology=Spanish, an uninhabited and utterly inhospitable place
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 543
|treatment_page=page 634
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 10–30+ cm (taprooted). <b>Stems</b> single or clustered, erect. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline (smaller distally); alternate; petiolate; blades (leathery) palmately 3-nerved (nerves ± parallel), lanceolate to ovate or obovate, margins entire or ± toothed, faces glabrous. <b>Heads</b> discoid, (25–180) in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays (terminal and in distal leaf axils). <b>Calyculi</b> 0 or bractlets 1–3+. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric, 3–5 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, (4–)5(–6) in 1–2 series (bright yellow, drying pale, with greenish yellow midribs ± keeled in life), erect, distinct, oblanceolate or lanceolate to lance-linear, equal, margins scarious (apices cucullate, faces glabrous). <b>Receptacles</b> flat (sometimes with central cusp), smooth, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets (4–)5(–6), bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes longer than throats, lobes 5, spreading, linear; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices rounded-truncate (micro-characters tussilaginoid). <b>Cypselae</b> (brown) ellipsoid to oblanceoloid, slightly flattened, usually 10-ribbed, often short-hairy; pappi tardily falling, of 70+, whitish, barbellulate bristles.</span><!--

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|distribution=Wyo.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Yermo
|author=Robert D. Dorn
|authority=Dorn
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=1991
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Yermo
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