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|accepted_name=Ixeris
|accepted_authority=(Cassini) Cassini in F. Cuvier
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|place=2, 25: 62. 1822
|year=1822
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Taraxacum subg. Ixeris
|authority=Cassini
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Ixeris
|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>[[Ixeris]]</div></div>
|etymology=No etymology in protologue
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 216
|treatment_page=page 254
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>[annuals or biennials], (5–)10–30+ cm; taprooted (sometimes rhizomatous; stolons produced in some taxa). <b>Stems</b> (excluding stolons) 1–5+, erect (often scapiform), usually branched distally, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate; blades elliptic, oblong, orbiculate, or ovate [lanceolate to oblanceolate or linear], margins entire or denticulate to dentate [pinnately lobed] (faces glabrous [± scabrous]). <b>Heads</b> borne singly or in loose, corymbiform [paniculiform] arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> not inflated distally, usually bracteate. <b>Calyculi</b> of 3–10+, deltate to lanceolate bractlets. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to cylindric, 2–5[–8+] mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 5–10[–13+] in ± 1 series, linear [lanceolate], equal to subequal, margins sometimes scarious, apices obtuse to acute. <b>Receptacles</b> convex, weakly pitted, glabrous, epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 6–12+; corollas yellow [white or bluish]. <b>Cypselae</b> reddish brown [black], bodies ± fusiform, sometimes ± compressed, ribs (or wings) 10, beaks equal to or shorter than bodies, faces glabrous; pappi persistent, of 20–30, white [brown], ± equal, smooth or barbellulate bristles in 1 series. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=Southeast Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 20 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Ixeris
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=(Cassini) Cassini in F. Cuvier
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Taraxacum subg. Ixeris
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Bee F. Gunn
|distribution=Southeast Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1822
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_335.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Ixeris
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