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|accepted_name=Coreocarpus
|accepted_authority=Bentham
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Voy. Sulphur
|place=28, plate 16. 1844
|year=1844
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Coreopsidinae;Coreocarpus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Coreopsidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Coreocarpus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek koreos, bug, and karpos, fruit, alluding to pectinately winged cypselae of original species
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 185
|treatment_page=page 198
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>[subshrubs], 10–70(–120+) cm. <b>Stems</b> 1, erect [sprawling], branched throughout. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; opposite; obscurely petiolate; blades 1–2-pinnately or -pedately lobed (ultimate lobes narrowly lanceolate to filiform [lanceolate to ovate]), ultimate margins entire, faces usually glabrous, rarely hairy [pilose]. <b>Heads</b> usually radiate, sometimes discoid, in open, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays [borne singly]. <b>Calyculi</b> of (0–)1–3+ linear to subulate, herbaceous bractlets. <b>Involucres</b> ± campanulate to turbinate, 3–5+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 5–8[–13+] in ± 2 series, distinct, (green to stramineous with red-brown to purplish nerves) ovate to oblong, ± equal, membranous, margins scarious. <b>Receptacles</b> flat to convex, paleate; paleae falling, (stramineous with red-brown striae) lance-linear to lanceolate, membranous to scarious [adnate to cypselae]. <b>Ray</b> florets 0, or [1–]5–8, pistillate, fertile [styliferous and sterile or neuter]; corollas [orange] yellow to pale yellow or white [purplish]. <b>Disc</b> florets [5–]12–25[–30+], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow with red-brown nerves, tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform throats, lobes 5, ± deltate. <b>Cypselae</b> (blackish or red-brown to stramineous) obcompressed, ± oblanceolate, faces smooth or ± granular-papillate, margins ± winged, wings ± corky, ± pectinate [entire]; pappi 0, or persistent, of 1–2 retrorsely [antrorsely] barbellate awns. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 9 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=smith1989a
|text=Smith, E. B. 1989. A biosystematic study and revision of the genus Coreocarpus (Compositae). Syst. Bot. 14: 448–472.
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name=Coreocarpus
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Bentham
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico.
|reference=smith1989a
|publication title=Bot. Voy. Sulphur
|publication year=1844
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Coreopsidinae
|genus=Coreocarpus
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