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Flaveria [family COMPOSITAE]
Date Updated: 23 July 2012
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 21,
Names
Flaveria [family COMPOSITAE], Gen. Pl., 186. 1789
Treatment Author(s)
Sharon C. Yarborough
A. Michael Powell
Information
Annuals, perennials, or subshrubs, to 200+ cm [trees to 400 cm] (usually ± succulent, herbage usually glaucous). Stems (often purplish) erect or decumbent, branched distally or ± throughout. Leaves cauline; opposite (decussate); petiolate or sessile (weakly connate to connate-perfoliate); blades (often 3-nerved) oblong-ovate to lanceolate or linear, margins entire, serrate, or spinulose-serrate, faces glabrous or short-pubescent. Heads radiate or discoid, usually in tight or loose aggregations in (often flat-topped) ± corymbiform arrays or glomerules. Involucres oblong, urceolate, cylindric, or turbinate, 0.5–2 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 2–6(–9) in ± 1 series (linear, concave, or boat-shaped, subequal). Receptacles convex, epaleate (“receptacles” of glomerules sometimes setose). Ray florets 0–1(–2), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow or whitish (laminae inconspicuous). Disc florets 1–15, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than to about equaling funnelform to campanulate throats, lobes 5, ± deltate. Cypselae (black) weakly compressed, narrowly oblanceolate or linear-oblong (usually 10-nerved, glabrous); pappi usually 0, sometimes persistent, of 2–4 hyaline scales, or coroniform (of connate scales). x = 18.
Distribution
United StatesMexicoWest Indies (Greater Antilles)Central AmericaSouth AmericaAsia (India)AfricaAustralia.
Discussion
Members of Flaveria are frequently found in alkaline, saline, and gypseous soils, often in disturbed and moist areas. Heads of Flaveria may be either radiate or discoid; when both are present in the same capitulescence, the discoid heads tend to be central and the radiate heads peripheral. Many species of Flaveria have persistent sheathing leaf bases that ring the stems after the leaves have fallen.
Flaveria is notable because certain species exhibit C3 photosynthesis, some C3–C4 (intermediate) photosynthesis, and others (F. brownii, F. bidentis, F. campestris, and F. trinervia in the United States) classic C4 photosynthesis.
Date Updated: 23 July 2012
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 21,
Names
Flaveria [family COMPOSITAE], Gen. Pl., 186. 1789
Treatment Author(s)
Sharon C. Yarborough
A. Michael Powell
Information
Annuals, perennials, or subshrubs, to 200+ cm [trees to 400 cm] (usually ± succulent, herbage usually glaucous). Stems (often purplish) erect or decumbent, branched distally or ± throughout. Leaves cauline; opposite (decussate); petiolate or sessile (weakly connate to connate-perfoliate); blades (often 3-nerved) oblong-ovate to lanceolate or linear, margins entire, serrate, or spinulose-serrate, faces glabrous or short-pubescent. Heads radiate or discoid, usually in tight or loose aggregations in (often flat-topped) ± corymbiform arrays or glomerules. Involucres oblong, urceolate, cylindric, or turbinate, 0.5–2 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 2–6(–9) in ± 1 series (linear, concave, or boat-shaped, subequal). Receptacles convex, epaleate (“receptacles” of glomerules sometimes setose). Ray florets 0–1(–2), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow or whitish (laminae inconspicuous). Disc florets 1–15, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than to about equaling funnelform to campanulate throats, lobes 5, ± deltate. Cypselae (black) weakly compressed, narrowly oblanceolate or linear-oblong (usually 10-nerved, glabrous); pappi usually 0, sometimes persistent, of 2–4 hyaline scales, or coroniform (of connate scales). x = 18.
Distribution
United StatesMexicoWest Indies (Greater Antilles)Central AmericaSouth AmericaAsia (India)AfricaAustralia.
Discussion
Members of Flaveria are frequently found in alkaline, saline, and gypseous soils, often in disturbed and moist areas. Heads of Flaveria may be either radiate or discoid; when both are present in the same capitulescence, the discoid heads tend to be central and the radiate heads peripheral. Many species of Flaveria have persistent sheathing leaf bases that ring the stems after the leaves have fallen.
Flaveria is notable because certain species exhibit C3 photosynthesis, some C3–C4 (intermediate) photosynthesis, and others (F. brownii, F. bidentis, F. campestris, and F. trinervia in the United States) classic C4 photosynthesis.
Date Updated: 23 July 2012
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 21,
Names
Flaveria [family COMPOSITAE], Gen. Pl., 186. 1789
Treatment Author(s)
Sharon C. Yarborough
A. Michael Powell
Information
Annuals, perennials, or subshrubs, to 200+ cm [trees to 400 cm] (usually ± succulent, herbage usually glaucous). Stems (often purplish) erect or decumbent, branched distally or ± throughout. Leaves cauline; opposite (decussate); petiolate or sessile (weakly connate to connate-perfoliate); blades (often 3-nerved) oblong-ovate to lanceolate or linear, margins entire, serrate, or spinulose-serrate, faces glabrous or short-pubescent. Heads radiate or discoid, usually in tight or loose aggregations in (often flat-topped) ± corymbiform arrays or glomerules. Involucres oblong, urceolate, cylindric, or turbinate, 0.5–2 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 2–6(–9) in ± 1 series (linear, concave, or boat-shaped, subequal). Receptacles convex, epaleate (“receptacles” of glomerules sometimes setose). Ray florets 0–1(–2), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow or whitish (laminae inconspicuous). Disc florets 1–15, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than to about equaling funnelform to campanulate throats, lobes 5, ± deltate. Cypselae (black) weakly compressed, narrowly oblanceolate or linear-oblong (usually 10-nerved, glabrous); pappi usually 0, sometimes persistent, of 2–4 hyaline scales, or coroniform (of connate scales). x = 18.
Distribution
United StatesMexicoWest Indies (Greater Antilles)Central AmericaSouth AmericaAsia (India)AfricaAustralia.
Discussion
Members of Flaveria are frequently found in alkaline, saline, and gypseous soils, often in disturbed and moist areas. Heads of Flaveria may be either radiate or discoid; when both are present in the same capitulescence, the discoid heads tend to be central and the radiate heads peripheral. Many species of Flaveria have persistent sheathing leaf bases that ring the stems after the leaves have fallen.
Flaveria is notable because certain species exhibit C3 photosynthesis, some C3–C4 (intermediate) photosynthesis, and others (F. brownii, F. bidentis, F. campestris, and F. trinervia in the United States) classic C4 photosynthesis.
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