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|accepted_name=Ligularia
|accepted_authority=Cassini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|place=1816: 198. 1816
|year=1816
}}
|common_names=Ligularia
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Ligularia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ligularia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin, ligula, little tongue, and -aria, pertaining to or possession of; alluding to corollas of radiate heads
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 540, 542
|treatment_page=page 613
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 15–150+ cm (glabrous or scattered-hairy, especially distally [arachno-tomentose]; roots fibrous). <b>Stems</b> usually 1, erect. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate (petiole bases dilated, ± sheathing stems); blades (basal and proximal largest, cauline smaller distally) palmately [palmati-pinnately] nerved, orbiculate to reniform [elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate], margins dentate [denticulate, serrate, dissected], faces glabrous or sparsely pilosulous (mostly on nerves) [glaucous; arachno-tomentose]. <b>Heads</b> radiate [discoid], in corymbiform [racemiform or spiciform] arrays. <b>Calyculi</b> 0 [1–2+ bractlets]. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric to campanulate, [3–]16–28 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, [5–]8–13+ in 1–2 series, erect, distinct (margins interlocking) [connate at bases], mostly oblong or lanceolate to linear, subequal, margins usually ± scarious (tips greenish or reddish, not blackened). <b>Receptacles</b> flat to convex, smooth, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets [0 or 1–7] 8–14+, pistillate, fertile; corollas (laminae prominent, showy) orange to orange-yellow or brick-red [yellow]. <b>Disc</b> florets [5–]12–100+, bisexual, fertile; corollas orange-yellow to orange, becoming brownish [yellow], tubes longer than cylindric throats, lobes 5, recurved, lance-linear; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices truncate or rounded-truncate. <b>Cypselae</b> (stramineous to brownish) ± ellipsoid [cylindric or fusiform], 5[–10]-ribbed or -nerved, glabrous; pappi persistent (fragile), of 40–100+, reddish [sordid, brownish, purplish], barbellate to barbellulate bristles ([shorter than] longer than cypselae). <b>x</b> = 30.</span><!--

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|distribution=temperate Eurasia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 125+ (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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name=Ligularia
|author=Theodore M. Barkley†
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=temperate Eurasia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|publication year=1816
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Ligularia
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