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|accepted_name=Benitoa
|accepted_authority=D. D. Keck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|place=8: 26. 1956
|year=1956
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Benitoa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Benitoa]]</div></div>
|etymology=For San Benito County, California, alluding to distribution
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 3, 9
|treatment_page=page 450
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> mostly 10–100 cm (taprooted). <b>Stems</b> erect, branched distally, stipitate-glandular (at least distally). <b>Leaves</b> cauline (at flowering); alternate; sessile or petiolate (bases of blades ± decurrent onto petioles); blades 1(–3+)-nerved, oblanceolate to linear (sessile, smaller, bractlike distally), margins entire or nearly so, faces stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly or in open, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> ± campanulate to turbinate or fusiform, (8–10 ×) 3–5 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 22–35+ in (4–)5–6+ series, 1-nerved (flat), lanceolate to linear, unequal, herbaceous to ± cartilaginous, margins scarious, apices (slightly spreading to nearly squarrose) some or all bearing a tack-shaped gland. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, pitted, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 5–8(–13+), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow (occasionally suffused with red, becoming revolute). <b>Disc</b> florets 9–20+, functionally staminate; corollas yellow, tubes about equaling funnelform to campanulate throats, lobes 5, erect, lance-deltate; style-branch appendages lanceolate. <b>Cypselae</b> (mottled purple-brown) ± plumply clavate, ± triquetrous, 3-nerved, faces sericeous; pappi readily falling (fragile), of 2–8 whitish, subulate, barbellate scales (flattened bristles) in 1 series. <b>x</b> = 5.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=markos2001a
|text=Markos, S. and B. G. Baldwin. 2001. Higher-level relationships and major lineages of Lessingia (Compositae, Astereae) based on nuclear rDNA internal and external transcribed spacer (ITS and ETS) sequences. Syst. Bot. 26: 168–183.
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name=Benitoa
|author=Staci Markos;John L. Strother
|authority=D. D. Keck
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=markos2001a
|publication title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|publication year=1956
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_1037.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Benitoa
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