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|accepted_name=Volutaria
|accepted_authority=Cassini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|place=1816: 200. 1816
|year=1816
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyanopsis
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Volutarella
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cardueae;Volutaria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cardueae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Volutaria]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin voluta, twisted, spiral, and - aria, possession, alluding to spirally coiled corolla lobes of original species
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 67, 84
|treatment_page=page 174
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> to 50 cm; taprooted, not spiny. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched, leafy; branches few–many, ascending. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; winged-petiolate (basal and proximal cauline) or sessile (mid and distal cauline); blade margins entire to dentate or pinnately divided, faces villous (hairs septate), minutely glandular. <b>Heads</b> radiant, borne singly or in few-headed corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> ovoid, 10–15 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> many in several series, unequal, appressed, ovate to lanceolate, margins entire, apices acute, tipped by ascending, spreading or reflexed, flattened spines. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, epaleate, bristly. <b>Florets</b>: peripheral neuter; corollas pink to purple, [blue, or yellow], spreading, lobes (5–6), linear; inner fertile, corollas pink to purple, [blue, yellow, or oarea, colored like the outer or not], tubes slender, throats narrowly cylindric, lobes linear-oblong; anther bases tailed, apical appendages lanceolate; style branches: fused portions with minutely hairy nodes, distinct portions short, linear. <b>Cypselae</b> ± barrel-shaped, weakly compressed, ribbed, apices with prominent collars, faces pitted, attachment scars lateral (excavated, surrounded by prominent rims, with eliasomes); pappi persistent, of several series of many distinct, white to tawny, narrow scales. <b>x</b> = 8, 12, 13, 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);w Asia;Macaronesia;ne Africa.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 16 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
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name=Volutaria
|author=David J. Keil
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=Cyanopsis;Volutarella
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);w Asia;Macaronesia;ne Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|publication year=1816
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cardueae
|genus=Volutaria
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