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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Pascalia
|accepted_authority=Ortega
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec.,
|place=39, plate 4. 1797
|year=1797
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae;Pascalia
|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 Ecliptinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pascalia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For D. B. Pascal, French/Italian physician/botanist, once director of royal garden at Parma
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 65, 67
|treatment_page=page 131
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 30–100 cm (rhizomatous). <b>Stems</b> erect, branched ± throughout. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; opposite; petiolate or sessile; blades (3-nerved) lanceolate to lance-linear (widest at or proximal to middles, not notably fleshy), bases cuneate, margins entire or toothed, faces sparsely scabrous. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to hemispheric, 10–15 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 20–28 in 2–3 series (linear to lance-linear, herbaceous, subequal or outer longer than inner, spreading in fruit). <b>Receptacles</b> hemispheric, paleate (paleae lanceolate to ovate, conduplicate, becoming papery). <b>Ray</b> florets 13–21, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow. <b>Disc</b> florets 45–90+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than campanulate throats, lobes 5, ± deltate. <b>Cypselae</b> 3-angled or ± compressed and weakly 4-angled (epidermes usually thick, corky, bases without elaiosomes, apices not rostrate); pappi 0, or persistent, coroniform (of connate scales plus 0–2 awns). <b>x</b> = 33.</span><!--

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|distribution=South America.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Pascalia
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Ortega
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Linda Ann Vorobik
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec.,
|publication year=1797
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae
|genus=Pascalia
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