Launaea
Family: Asteraceae
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Annuals or biennials [perennials, shrubs, sometimes spiny], [5-]30-150 cm; usually taprooted [stoloniferous]. Stems erect [prostrate], distally branched, glabrous [± hairy. . Leaves basal or basal and proximally cauline; petiolate or sessile; blades ± oblanceolate, often pinnately lobed, ultimate margins usually dentate (teeth usually ± prickly; faces glabrous [± hairy]). Heads in spiciform or racemiform to paniculiform arrays [borne singly]. Peduncles not inflated distally, bracteolate. Calyculi 0 (or bractlets intergrading with phyllaries). Involucres cylindric [urceolate, campanulate, or obconic], 3-5[-16] mm diam. Phyllaries (persistent, reflexed in fruit) 18-25 in 3-5+ series, unequal, ovate to lanceolate (outer) or linear (inner), margins scarious, apices obtuse to acuminate (faces glabrous [± hairy]). Receptacles flat to convex, epaleate. Florets 25-30; corollas yellow to ochroleucous [cyanic]. Cypselae blackish to grayish, cylindric to fusiform or ± prismatic, sometimes ± compressed, beaks 0 (or lengths 0.05-0.1 times bodies), 4-5-ribbed (or -grooved), ribs usually muricate, faces glabrous; pappi persistent or tardily falling [readily falling], double [simple], of 60-100+, outer, white, often ± coiled or crisped (frizzy) hairs or bristles in 2-3 series plus 80-120+, white, coarser, barbellulate to smooth bristles in 2-3+ series, all distinct or some basally connate. x = 9.

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