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You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Stevia |accepted_authority=Cavanilles |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Icon. |place=4: 32, plates 354, 355. 1797 |year=1797 }} |common_names=Candyleaf |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae;Stevia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Stevia]]</div></div> |etymology=For Pedro Jaime Esteve (Stevius), d. 1556, noted medical practitioner and botany professor of Valencia, Spain |volume=Volume 21 |mention_page=page 459, 485 |treatment_page=page 483 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs, 50–120+ cm. <b>Stems</b> erect, usually branched. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; all or mostly opposite or mostly alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades 1- or 3-nerved, deltate, lanceolate, lance-elliptic, lance-linear, elliptic-oblong, linear, ovate, or trullate, margins entire or serrate, serrulate, or toothed, faces hirtellous, puberulent, glabrescent, or glabrous (sometimes shiny), sometimes gland-dotted. <b>Heads</b> discoid, in loose to dense, corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> ± cylindric, (1–)2–3 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 5(–6) in ± 1 series, 2–3-nerved, ovate or oblong to lanceolate or linear, ± equal (herbaceous). <b>Receptacles</b> flat or convex, epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 5(–6); corollas purple to pink or white, throats narrowly funnelform (lengths 3–4 times diams., ± hirtellous inside); styles: bases sometimes enlarged, glabrous (sometimes papillose), branches filiform. <b>Cypselae</b> columnar to prismatic or fusiform, 5-ribbed, gland-dotted and/or scabrellous; pappi (sometimes ± vestigial on 1–2 cypselae of each head) persistent, of 5, (distinct or connate) muticous scales plus 0–5[–30+] subulate-aristate to setiform scales or bristles. <b>x</b> = 11, 12, 17.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=w United States;Mexico;Central America;South America. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 240 (7 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=grashoff1972a |text=Grashoff, J. L. 1972. A Systematic Study of the North and Central American Species of Stevia. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Texas. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Annuals |[[Stevia micrantha|Stevia micrantha]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs. |[[#key-0-2| > 2]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Subshrubs or shrubs |[[#key-0-3| > 3]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Perennials |[[#key-0-4| > 4]] |-id=key-0-3 |3 |Phyllaries densely stipitate-glandular and sparsely villous to hispid; corolla lobeshispidulous |[[Stevia lemmonii|Stevia lemmonii]] |-id=key-0-3 |3 |Phyllaries glabrous, usually viscid-shiny (from resinous exudate of ± evident sunken glands), not villous or hispid; corolla lobes glabrous |[[Stevia salicifolia|Stevia salicifolia]] |-id=key-0-4 |4 |Leaves mostly opposite, blades lanceolate, lance-ovate, oblanceolate, ovate, or trullate; phyllary apices rounded to blunt or obtuse; pappi usually shorter than corollas (sometimes coroniform) |[[#key-0-5| > 5]] |-id=key-0-4 |4 |Leaves mostly alternate (often with abundant axillary clusters of smaller leaves), blades lance-linear, linear, linear-oblong, narrowly oblanceolate, or oblong; phyllary apices acute to acuminate; pappi usually equaling corollas (sometimes coroniform or 0) |[[#key-0-6| > 6]] |-id=key-0-5 |5 |Leaves petiolate (raised venation usually including only midvein and primary laterals); involucres 4–5.5(–6) mm |[[Stevia ovata|Stevia ovata]] |-id=key-0-5 |5 |Leaves sessile or nearly so (raised venation reticulate, including secondary andtertiary veins); involucres (5.5–)6–8.5 mm |[[Stevia plummerae|Stevia plummerae]] |-id=key-0-6 |6 |Heads in ± congested, compact clusters; peduncles 0 or 1–4 mm; involucres 5–6(–7)mm; phyllaries sessile-glandular, sparsely villosulous |[[Stevia serrata|Stevia serrata]] |-id=key-0-6 |6 |Heads borne in open, subcorymbiform arrays; peduncles mostly 5–30 mm; involucres 6–8 mm; phyllaries sessile- and stipitate-glandular (not villous) |[[Stevia viscida|Stevia viscida]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Stevia |author=Guy L. Nesom |authority=Cavanilles |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Asteraceae |distribution=w United States;Mexico;Central America;South America. |reference=grashoff1972a |publication title=Icon. |publication year=1797 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_1214.xml |tribe=Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae |genus=Stevia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae]] 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 Stevia.