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|accepted_name=Engelmannia
|accepted_authority=A. Gray ex Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|place=7: 343. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae;Engelmannia
|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>[[Engelmannia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For George Engelmann, 1809–1884, German-American physician and botanist
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 65
|treatment_page=page 87
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 20–50(–100) cm (taproots or caudices becoming woody). <b>Stems</b> erect (coarsely strigose, hispid, or hirsute), usually branched (at least distally, sometimes branched from bases, aerial stems multiple). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate (basal and proximal cauline) or sessile (distal); blades (pinnately nerved) mostly oblong to lanceolate, usually 1(–2)-pinnately lobed, bases ± cuneate, ultimate margins entire, faces coarsely strigose, hispid, or hirsute. <b>Heads</b> radiate, in open, corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric, 6–10 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent (outer) or falling (inner, with cypselae), mostly 18–24+ in ± 3 series (outer with relatively short, expanded, indurate bases and longer, linear, herbaceous tips, inner broadly ovate, mostly indurate, scarious-margined, herbaceous tips relatively broader and shorter, tending to split along midveins in age). <b>Receptacles</b> flat, paleate (paleae linear to narrowly oblong, hirsute-ciliate at tips). <b>Ray</b> florets 8–9 (each subtended by an inner phyllary), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow (laminae oblong-elliptic, entire or minutely 2–3-toothed). <b>Disc</b> florets 25–50, functionally staminate; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than campanulate throats, lobes 5, ± deltate (anthers black, appendages deltate, obtuse; styles not branched). <b>Cypselae</b> obcompressed or obflattened, obovate (each falling with subtending phyllary, 2–4, indurate paleae, plus sterile ovaries of 2–4 disc florets, margins ± ciliate, faces strigose to pilose); pappi persistent or tardily falling, of 2–4, ciliate scales. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Engelmannia
|author=David J. Keil
|authority=A. Gray ex Nuttall
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|publication year=1840
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae
|genus=Engelmannia
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