View source for Leontodon ← Leontodon 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=Leontodon |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. |place=2: 798. 1753 |year=1753 }}, {{Treatment/Publication |title=Gen. Pl. ed. |place=5, 349. 1754 |year=1754 }} |common_names=Hawkbit |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Leontodon |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>[[Leontodon]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek leon, lion, and odons, tooth, alluding to deeply toothed leaves |volume=Volume 19 |mention_page=page 215, 217, 240, 298 |treatment_page=page 294 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, 10–80 cm; fibrous-rooted, sometimes tuberous, or with short caudices. <b>Stems</b> 1–20+, simple and scapiform or sparingly branched, glabrous, tomentulose, or coarsely hirsute. <b>Leaves</b> basal; petiolate (petioles winged); blades oblanceolate, margins entire or dentate or deeply lobed (faces glabrous or hispid, hairs simple or minutely 2–3-fid). <b>Heads</b> borne singly or 2–5 in loose, corymbiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> slightly inflated, naked or minutely bracteate. <b>Calyculi</b> of 10–20, subulate to lanceolate bractlets in 1–2 series (unequal), glabrous, tomentulose, or hirsute. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 4–15 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 16–20 in 2+ series, narrowly lanceolate, subequal, glabrous, tomentulose, or hirsute. <b>Receptacles</b> convex, pitted, sometimes slightly villous, epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 20–30; corollas yellow to orange (outer sometimes with reddish or greenish stripes). <b>Cypselae</b> light to dark brown or reddish brown, fusiform or cylindric, curved, distally narrowed and not beaked, or beaked, ribs 10–14, faces muricate, glabrous; pappi of ± distinct, yellowish white, tan, or pale brown bristles in 1–2 series (all uniformly plumose or outer reduced; pappi of outer cypselae sometimes reduced to crowns of bristlelike scales). <b>x</b> = 4, 6, 7.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Europe;n North Africa;Mediterranean;w Asia. |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species ca. 50 (3 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p><i>Leontodon</i> is recognized by the basal rosettes of pinnatifid leaves, scapiform stems, loosely imbricate phyllaries, yellow corollas, and plumose pappus bristles. Some species are somewhat doubtfully distinguished by an overlapping mixture of vestiture and pappus characters.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Heads (1–)2–5 in corymbiform arrays; peduncles minutely bracteate proximal to heads; pappi wholly of plumose bristles |[[Leontodon autumnalis|Leontodon autumnalis]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Head borne singly on scapiform stems; peduncles usually ebracteate proximal to heads; pappi mixed (either outer series different from inner, or pappi of outer cypselae reduced to crowns of bristlelike scales) |[[#key-0-2| > 2]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Pappi mixed in all cypselae (outer series of bristlelike scales, inner of plumose bristles); phyllaries densely, coarsely hispid or hirsute |[[Leontodon hispidus|Leontodon hispidus]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Pappi of 2 types (on outer cypselae, crowns of bristlelike scales; on inner, of plumose bristles); phyllaries glabrate to coarsely hirsute |[[Leontodon saxatilis|Leontodon saxatilis]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Leontodon |author=David J. Bogler |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Asteraceae |illustrator=Bee F. Gunn |illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association |distribution=Europe;n North Africa;Mediterranean;w Asia. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed. |publication year=1753;1754 |special status= |source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_424.xml |tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae |genus=Leontodon }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]] 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/Publication (view source) Return to Leontodon.