View source for Lagascea ← Lagascea 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=Lagascea |accepted_authority=Cavanilles |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Anales Ci. Nat. |place=6: 331. 1803 |year=1803 }} |common_names=Doll’s-head;acuate;silk-leaf;velvet-bush |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Helianthinae;Lagascea |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 Helianthinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lagascea]]</div></div> |etymology=For Mariano Lagasca y Segura, Spanish botanist at the Madrid Botanical Garden |volume=Volume 21 |mention_page=page 135 |treatment_page=page 136 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[annuals, perennials], to 50–100[–300] cm. <b>Stems</b> erect [ascending to decumbent], branched from bases or ± throughout. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; opposite; petiolate [sessile]; blades 3-nerved, lance-ovate to ovate [lanceolate to oblanceolate], bases broadly cuneate [to subauriculate], margins ± serrate, faces usually sericeous to strigose or glabrate, often stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> discoid, borne in headlike glomerules (of [8–]30–50+, 1(–2)[–8]-flowered heads, glomerules borne singly or in ± corymbiform [racemiform] arrays). <b>Involucres</b> cylindric, 1–2 mm diam. (glomerules of heads usually subtended by leaves or ± foliaceous bracts). <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 4–5[–8+] in ± 1 series (linear-attenuate, proximally connate, often 1 or more with 1[–3+] glands in abaxial face). <b>Receptacles</b> convex (often hirtellous), rarely paleate (paleae linear). <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets 1(–2)[–8], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow [white, pink, or red], tubes shorter than cylindric to campanulate throats, lobes 5, lance-linear to lance-ovate [rounded-deltate] (often hairy). <b>Cypselae</b> (brown to black) narrowly cylindric to obovoid or clavate (faces glabrous or pilosulous, minutely grooved); pappi ± coroniform. <b>x</b> = 17.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America (to Nicaragua);introduced in West Indies;South America;Asia (India;Java;Sri Lanka;Thailand);Africa;Pacific Islands (Hawaii). |discussion=<p>Species 8 (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p><i>Lagascea</i> mollis Cavanilles, now a nearly pantropical weed, was collected at Apalachicola, Franklin County, Florida (Chapman, n.d., presumably ca. 1860), evidently from an ephemeral population, probably from ballast.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=harris1994a |text=Harris, E. M. 1994. Developmental evidence for the derivation of syncephalia in Lagascea (Heliantheae; Asteraceae). Amer. J. Bot. 81: 1139–1148. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=stuessy1976a |text=Stuessy, T. F. 1976. A systematic review of the subtribe Lagasceinae (Compositae, Heliantheae). Amer. J. Bot. 63: 1289–1294. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=stuessy1978a |text=Stuessy, T. F. 1978. Revision of Lagascea (Compositae, Heliantheae). Fieldiana, Bot. 38: 75–133. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Lagascea |author=Elizabeth M. Harris |authority=Cavanilles |rank=genus |parent rank=subtribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Asteraceae |illustrator=Barbara Alongi |illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association |distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America (to Nicaragua);introduced in West Indies;South America;Asia (India;Java;Sri Lanka;Thailand);Africa;Pacific Islands (Hawaii). |reference=harris1994a;stuessy1976a;stuessy1978a |publication title=Anales Ci. Nat. |publication year=1803 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_330.xml |tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae |subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Helianthinae |genus=Lagascea }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Helianthinae]] 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) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Lagascea.