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|accepted_name=Sanvitalia
|accepted_authority=Lamarck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Hist. Nat.
|place=2: 176, plate 33. 1792
|year=1792
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae;Sanvitalia
|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 Ecliptinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sanvitalia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Etymology unclear; possibly for some member of the Italian family Sanvitali or for a Spanish botanist named Sanvital
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 64, 65
|treatment_page=page 70
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, (3–)10–30 cm. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to erect, branched from bases or ± throughout. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; opposite; petiolate or sessile; blades obovate or spatulate to linear, bases rounded to ± cuneate, margins entire [toothed or lobed], faces hairy. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric to ± rotate, 4–12+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 8–21 in 2–3 series (lanceolate to linear, outer distally herbaceous, others each with stiff, subulate appendage). <b>Receptacles</b> convex to conic, paleate (paleae conduplicate, scarious). <b>Ray</b> florets 5–20, pistillate, fertile; corollas white or yellow (laminae sessile, persistent, becoming papery). <b>Disc</b> florets 15–60, bisexual, fertile; corollas distally yellow to orange (sometimes drying white), tubes much shorter than funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate. <b>Cypselae</b> ± terete or obscurely 3–4-angled to compressed or flattened (all usually tuberculate and usually bearing uncinate hairs; none, some, or all in each head winged); pappi persistent, of 3–4 awns. <b>x</b> = 8, 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=strother1979a
|text=Strother, J. L. 1979. Extradition of Sanvitalia tenuis to Zinnia (Compositae–Heliantheae). Madroño 26: 173–179.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=torres1964a
|text=Torres, A. M. 1964. Revision of Sanvitalia (Compositae–Heliantheae). Brittonia 16: 417–433.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Phyllaries 8–11; ray cypselae subterete, obscurely 3-angled, sulcate on each angle and on abaxial faces
|[[Sanvitalia abertii|Sanvitalia abertii]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Phyllaries 12–21; ray cypselae 3-angled (clearly 3-faced, adaxial faces often 2–3-nerved)
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Disc cypselae strongly dimorphic within heads: outer wingless, inner 1–2-winged
|[[Sanvitalia procumbens|Sanvitalia procumbens]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Disc cypselae ± monomorphic within heads, ± 4-angled to laterally compressed, none winged
|[[Sanvitalia ocymoides|Sanvitalia ocymoides]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Sanvitalia
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Lamarck
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Bee F. Gunn
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|reference=strother1979a;torres1964a
|publication title=J. Hist. Nat.
|publication year=1792
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_151.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae
|genus=Sanvitalia
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