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|accepted_name=Laënnecia
|accepted_authority=Cassini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|place=2, 25: 91. 1822
|year=1822
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Laënnecia
|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>[[Laënnecia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec, 1781–1826, French physician, inventor of the stethoscope
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 8, 9, 12, 349
|treatment_page=page 36
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, 10–120(–350+) cm (usually taprooted, sometimes with ± woody caudices). <b>Stems</b> usually erect, simple or branched from bases or throughout. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline (mostly cauline at flowering); alternate; sessile or petiolate; blades (usually 1-nerved) elliptic, linear, oblanceolate, oblong, obovate, ovate, spatulate, sometimes 1–2-pinnately lobed, ultimate margins toothed or entire, faces glabrate, hirtellous, tomentose, or villous, usually stipitate- and/or sessile-glandular as well. <b>Heads</b> obscurely radiate or disciform, borne in ± corymbiform, paniculiform, or racemiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> ± turbinate, 2–7[–10] mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 20–40+ in 2–4 series, appressed (usually reflexed in fruit), 1-nerved (nerves not orange or brown), lanceolate to linear, ± unequal to subequal, ± herbaceous medially, margins ± membranous, glabrate, hirtellous, tomentose, or villous, usually stipitate- and/or sessile-glandular as well. <b>Receptacles</b> ± flat, pitted or smooth, epaleate. <b>Peripheral</b> (“ray”) florets 20–100(–200), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellowish (usually distally truncate or 2–5-toothed, sometimes with laminae 0.5–1+ mm). <b>Disc</b> florets 2–20[–30+], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellowish, narrowly funnelform, tubes shorter than throats, lobes 5, erect or spreading, deltate (lengths 2–2.5+ times widths); style-branch appendages deltate. <b>Cypselae</b> oblong to elliptic or obovate, compressed, margins thickened, riblike, faces glabrous, ± strigillose (hairs 0.05–0.1 mm), or densely sericeous (hairs 0.3–0.5 mm), often also stipitate- and/or sessile-glandular; pappi persistent, ± fragile, or readily falling, of 9–30+, white to tawny, ± equal, barbellulate, apically attenuate bristles in 1 series, or 30–40+ bristles in 2 series (outer usually shorter). <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mostly subtropical;tropical;and warm-temperate New World.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 18 (6 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>G. L. Nesom (1990) argued for segregating some species from <i>Conyza</i> as members of <i>Laënnecia</i>. Although there are exceptions to each of the trends noted by Nesom, the rationale he presented is compelling. R. D. Noyes and L. H. Rieseberg (1999) demonstrated molecular differences that are consistent with treating laënnecias and conyzas in separate genera; at the same time, they showed <i>Conyza</i> to be “nested” within <i>Erigeron</i>.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=nesom1990d
|text=Nesom, G. L. 1990. Taxonomy of the genus Laënnecia (Asteraceae: Astereae). Phytologia 68: 205–228.
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades densely to loosely tomentose (at least abaxially, sometimes glandular beneath the tomentum); pappi of 30–40+ bristles in 2 series
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades usually hirtellous to villous and usually glandular, sometimes glabrate (usually sparsely and finely tomentose and with coarse, erect, multicellular hairs and stipitate- or sessile-glandular in L. schiedeana); pappi of 9–30 bristles in 1 series
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pistillate corollas: laminae 0.5–1 mm; cypselae pale tan to brownish, 2–3 mm
|[[Laënnecia eriophylla|Laënnecia eriophylla]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pistillate corollas: laminae 0; cypselae purplish, 1.3–1.5 mm
|[[Laënnecia filaginoides|Laënnecia filaginoides]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades mostly 1–2-pinnately lobed (lobes ovate to ± linear); pappi 2–3 mm
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades coarsely toothed or entire; pappi 3.5–4 mm
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Bases of leaves obscurely, if at all, clasping; heads in racemiform or paniculiformarrays
|[[Laënnecia sophiifolia|Laënnecia sophiifolia]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Bases of all or at least distal leaves clasping; heads in ± corymbiform arrays
|[[Laënnecia turnerorum|Laënnecia turnerorum]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Leaf blades entire or distally toothed, faces usually sparsely and finely tomentose and with coarse, erect, multicellular hairs and stipitate- or sessile-glandular;pistillate corolla laminae 0.5–1+ mm
|[[Laënnecia schiedeana|Laënnecia schiedeana]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Leaf blades coarsely toothed from near their bases or entire, faces usually both hirtellous tovillous and ± glandular-viscid, not tomentose; pistillate corollalaminae 0
|[[Laënnecia coulteri|Laënnecia coulteri]]
|}
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name=Laënnecia
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Mostly subtropical;tropical;and warm-temperate New World.
|reference=nesom1990d
|publication title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1822
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Laënnecia
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