View source for Egletes

{{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 Egletes 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
|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://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_34.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Egletes
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]