View source for Egletes ← Egletes 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=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 }}<!-- --><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><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |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> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: 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= |source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_34.xml |tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae |genus=Egletes }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Asteraceae tribe Astereae]] 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 Egletes.