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|accepted_name=Mycelis
|accepted_authority=Cassini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|place=2, 33: 483. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Mycelis
|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>[[Mycelis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek <i>mycel-</i>, fungus or mass of threads, and <i>-is</i>, association, alluding to tuft of long fine hairs at junction of corolla tube and limb
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 215, 216
|treatment_page=page 257
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, (10–)40–90+ cm; taprooted. <b>Stems</b> usually 1, usually erect, branched distally, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline (mostly cauline at flowering); proximal ± petiolate, distal ± sessile; blades oblanceolate to spatulate (bases often clasping), margins pinnately lobed (lyrate to runcinate, terminal lobes ± deltate) and ± sharply dentate (faces glabrous). <b>Heads</b> in paniculiform to thyrsiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> not inflated distally, sometimes bracteolate. <b>Calyculi</b> of 2–4 (often spreading to patent), ± deltate to lanceolate bractlets in 1 series. <b>Involucres</b> narrowly cylindric, 1–2+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> (4–)5 in 1(–2) series (reflexed in fruit), linear, equal, margins little, if at all, scarious, apices rounded. <b>Receptacles</b> flat to convex, weakly pitted, glabrous, epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 5; corollas yellow. <b>Cypselae</b>: bodies blackish to reddish, compressed, obovoid to lanceoloid, beaks whitish, stout, ribs 5–7 on each face, faces scabrellous; pappi persistent (borne on discs at tips of beaks), white; outer of 12–20+, minute setae, inner of 60–80+, white, subequal, barbellulate bristles in 1–2+ series. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Mycelis
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Marjorie C. Leggitt
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1824
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Mycelis
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