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|accepted_name=Cladanthus
|accepted_authority=Cassini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|place=1816: 199. 1816
|year=1816
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ormenis
|authority=(Cassini) Cassini
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae;Cladanthus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cladanthus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Derivation not given; possibly Greek klados, branch, and anthos, flower, alluding to branching of stems at bases of sessile heads in original species
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 14, 487
|treatment_page=page 495
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>[perennials, subshrubs], 10–60+ cm (usually aromatic). <b>Stems</b> usually 1, usually erect [prostrate], branched [immediately proximal to sessile, terminal heads], puberulent or villous to arachnose (hairs basifixed), glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate (proximal) or sessile (distal); blades obovate or spatulate to oblong or linear, 1–2(–3)-pinnately lobed (ultimate lobes ± linear to filiform), ultimate margins entire or dentate, faces villous to arachnose, glabrescent. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly or in lax, corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric or broader, 5–8[–12+] mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 16–24+ in 2–3+ series, lance-linear or lanceolate to oblong or obovate, subequal, margins and apices (hyaline) scarious (apices ± dilated, rounded, abaxial faces ± villous or arachnose, glabrescent). <b>Receptacles</b> hemispheric to narrowly columnar or conic, paleate; paleae ± folded (carinate, each with central, red-brown resin duct). <b>Ray</b> florets 12–18+, neuter or styliferous and sterile; corollas orange, yellow, or white with yellow bases, laminae ± oblong (spreading to reflexed, ± marcescent). <b>Disc</b> florets 40–150[–200+], bisexual, fertile; corollas orange or yellow, tubes ± cylindric (bases saccate, each obliquely spurred, adaxially clasping distal 0.5+ of cypsela), throats campanulate to funnelform, lobes 5, deltate (apices minutely crested or dilated). <b>Cypselae</b> ± obovoid (apices oblique), weakly flattened (stylopodia sublateral), ribs or nerves (weak): 2 lateral, 1 adaxial, faces finely striate, glabrous [hairy] (pericarps with myxogenic cells in longitudinal rows, without resin sacs); pappi 0. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=s Europe;sw Asia;n Africa;introduced also in South America;elsewhere in Old World.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 5 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=oberprieler2002b
|text=Oberprieler, C. and R. Vogt. 2002. Cladanthus. In: Med Checklist notulae, 21. Willdenowia 32: 195. 208.
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name=Cladanthus
|author=Linda E. Watson
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=Ormenis
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=s Europe;sw Asia;n Africa;introduced also in South America;elsewhere in Old World.
|introduced=true
|reference=oberprieler2002b
|publication title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|publication year=1816
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae
|genus=Cladanthus
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