View source for Volutaria ← Volutaria You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Volutaria |accepted_authority=Cassini |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris |place=1816: 200. 1816 |year=1816 }} |basionyms= |synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym |name=Cyanopsis |authority=Cassini |rank=genus }} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym |name=Volutarella |authority=Cassini |rank=genus }} |hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cardueae;Volutaria |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cardueae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Volutaria]]</div></div> |etymology=Latin voluta, twisted, spiral, and - aria, possession, alluding to spirally coiled corolla lobes of original species |volume=Volume 19 |mention_page=page 67, 84 |treatment_page=page 174 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> to 50 cm; taprooted, not spiny. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched, leafy; branches few–many, ascending. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; winged-petiolate (basal and proximal cauline) or sessile (mid and distal cauline); blade margins entire to dentate or pinnately divided, faces villous (hairs septate), minutely glandular. <b>Heads</b> radiant, borne singly or in few-headed corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> ovoid, 10–15 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> many in several series, unequal, appressed, ovate to lanceolate, margins entire, apices acute, tipped by ascending, spreading or reflexed, flattened spines. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, epaleate, bristly. <b>Florets</b>: peripheral neuter; corollas pink to purple, [blue, or yellow], spreading, lobes (5–6), linear; inner fertile, corollas pink to purple, [blue, yellow, or oarea, colored like the outer or not], tubes slender, throats narrowly cylindric, lobes linear-oblong; anther bases tailed, apical appendages lanceolate; style branches: fused portions with minutely hairy nodes, distinct portions short, linear. <b>Cypselae</b> ± barrel-shaped, weakly compressed, ribbed, apices with prominent collars, faces pitted, attachment scars lateral (excavated, surrounded by prominent rims, with eliasomes); pappi persistent, of several series of many distinct, white to tawny, narrow scales. <b>x</b> = 8, 12, 13, 14.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);w Asia;Macaronesia;ne Africa. |discussion=<p>Species 16 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Volutaria |author=David J. Keil |authority=Cassini |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms=Cyanopsis;Volutarella |basionyms= |family=Asteraceae |distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);w Asia;Macaronesia;ne Africa. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris |publication year=1816 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_193.xml |tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cardueae |genus=Volutaria }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Asteraceae tribe Cardueae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Asteraceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/ID/Synonym (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Volutaria.