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|accepted_name=Anisocoma
|accepted_authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Boston J. Nat. Hist.
|place=5: 111, plate 13, figs. 7–11. 1845
|year=1845
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Anisocoma
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Anisocoma]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek anisos, unequal, and coma, hair, alluding to pappus
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 217, 310, 360
|treatment_page=page 309
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> 5–25 cm (± scapiform); taprooted. <b>Stems</b> 1–25+, erect or ascending, simple, glabrous or densely tomentose, sometimes glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> basal or subbasal; petiolate (petioles winged); blades oblanceolate, margins pinnately lobed, denticulate (teeth callose-tipped). <b>Heads</b> borne singly. <b>Peduncles</b> not inflated distally, ebracteate. <b>Calyculi</b> 0. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric to campanulate, 4–20 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 15–25 in 4–5 series, (centers green to reddish purple) unequal, outer ovate to orbiculate, inner linear to oblong, flat, margins papery-transparent, apices rounded or obtuse to subacute. <b>Receptacles</b> flat to weakly convex, smooth, paleate (paleae slender, bristlelike). <b>Florets</b> ca. 40; corollas cream to bright yellow. <b>Cypselae</b> tan, cylindric, (bases tapered) beaks 0 (or ca. 0.5 mm), 10–15-nerved, finely appressed-puberulent; pappi readily falling, of 10, distinct, white, plumose bristles in 1 series (adaxial usually shorter than abaxial). <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p>Molecular phylogenetic studies by J. Lee et al. (2003) indicated that <i>Malacothrix</i> is polyphyletic and that <i>Anisocoma</i> and <i>Calycoseris</i> are nested within the subclade of <i>Malacothrix</i> that contains <i>M. californica</i>, the type species of that genus. <i>Anisocoma</i> shares its base chromosome number (x = 7) with <i>Calycoseris</i> and the species of <i>Malacothrix</i> with which it is most closely grouped. <i>Anisocoma</i> differs from <i>Malacothrix</i> and <i>Calycoseris</i> in having paleate receptacles and pappi of plumose, rather than barbellulate bristles.</p>
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name=Anisocoma
|author=David J. Keil
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Boston J. Nat. Hist.
|publication year=1845
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Anisocoma
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