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|accepted_name=Egletes
|accepted_authority=Cassini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|place=1817: 153. 1817
|year=1817
}}
|common_names=Tropic daisy
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Egletes
|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>[[Egletes]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek aiglitis, splendor or glitter, perhaps alluding to heads
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 11
|treatment_page=page 35
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> 10–60 cm (gland-dotted; taprooted). <b>Stems</b> erect to decumbent, much branched, sometimes arachnose in early growth. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades (1-nerved) obovate to spatulate (bases clasping to subclasping), margins pinnatifid [lobed or toothed], (apices rounded to obtuse or acute) faces glabrous, villous, or tomentose, sometimes stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> radiate, usually borne singly (axillary, apparently opposite leaves), or in loose corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> shallowly hemispheric or cupulate, ([3–]4–6 × 4–10 mm). <b>Phyllaries</b> 10–25 in 2–3 series, lanceolate-triangular, subequal, thinly herbaceous, flat, margins scarious or not, abaxial faces glabrous or stipitate-glandular, villous, or tomentose. <b>Receptacles</b> conic, pitted, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 18–28[16–200] (in 1[–4] series, 1-nerved, midnerves barely evident), pistillate, fertile; corollas white to bluish white (laminae broad or filiform, longer or shorter than involucres). <b>Disc</b> florets 130–300 bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubular-funnelform (with slight differentiation of tubes and limbs), tubes shorter than throats, lobes 3–5, erect, deltate; style-branch appendages triangular. <b>Cypselae</b> oblong to narrowly obovoid, slightly compressed, 2-ribbed, glabrous or stipitate-glandular; pappi whitish, coroniform (cartilaginous crowns or shallow cups [broad, flaring]). <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The species of <i>Egletes</i> occur mostly in coastal habitats, from south Texas and Mexico through Central America, northern South America, and the Lesser Antilles. Plants are characterized by their low, herbaceous habit; glandular-resinous vestiture; narrow, multiseriate, often inconspicuous rays; conic receptacles; and compressed, glandular cypselae with coroniform pappi.</p>
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name=Egletes
|author=Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|publication year=1817
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Egletes
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