Synedrella
Family: Asteraceae
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Annuals, 10-80+ cm. Stems erect or ascending, branched from bases or ± throughout. Leaves cauline; opposite; petiolate; blades (usually 3-nerved) ovate to elliptic, bases cuneate to rounded, margins toothed, faces ± scabrous. Heads radiate, (sessile or subsessile) in axillary glomerules or borne singly. Involucres cylindric to campanulate, 3-6 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 2-5+ in 1(-2) series (lanceolate, herbaceous to chartaceous). Receptacles convex, paleate (paleae lance-linear, scarious, flat or weakly cupped at bases). Ray florets 2-9+ (in 1-2 series), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellowish. Disc florets 4-12+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellowish, tubes about equaling slightly ampliate, cylindric throats, lobes 4, rounded-deltate. Cypselae dimorphic, strongly obcompressed or flattened, narrowly oval and winged (ray, wings laciniate) or linear-cuneate and not winged (disc); pappi persistent, of 2 triangular scales (ray) or 2-3 subulate scales or awns (disc). x = 20-

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