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1. Subtribe TUSSILAGININAE

款冬亚族 kuan dong ya zu

Authors: Shangwu Liu, Yilin Chen, Irina D. Illarionova, Bertil Nordenstam, Hiroshige Koyama & Charles Jeffrey

Antheropodia cylindric or obconic, without enlarged marginal basal cells; endothecial tissue cell wall thickenings polarized, cells short; stigmatic areas usually confluent or contiguous; chromosome number usually 30, sometimes 29, 28, 27, 26, or 25, rarely 20 or 19.

About 60 genera and 900 species: worldwide; 11 genera (three endemic) and 269 species (193 endemic) in China.


1 Phyllaries in 2 series, all alike, herbaceous.   92 Doronicum
+ Phyllaries in 1 series, herbaceous, cartilaginous, or leathery, if an outer series (calyculus) also present then distinct in size and form from inner series   (2)
       
2 (1) Inner florets functionally male; florets precocious   (3)
+ Inner florets bisexual, florets not precocious   (4)
       
3 (2) Plants monoecious; peduncles 1-headed.   101 Tussilago
+ Plants subdioecious; capitula with polygamous florets; peduncles several headed.   102 Petasites
       
4 (2) Leaves basally sheathed; achenes not beaked   (5)
+ Leaves basally not sheathed; achenes beaked or not   (7)
       
5 (4) Leaf margins involute; achenes hairy.   93 Farfugium
+ Leaf margins revolute; achenes glabrous   (6)
       
6 (5) Involucres cylindric or obconic.   94 Ligularia
+ Involucres broadly campanulate or hemispheric.   95 Cremanthodium
       
7 (4) Capitula radiate; rhizomes dilated, tuberiform.   96 Sinacalia
+ Capitula discoid, homogamous, florets bisexual; rhizomes not tuberiform   (8)
       
8 (7) Style branches with papillae divided at apex into 2 brushlike lobes.   97 Dicercoclados
+ Style branches with papillae undivided at apex   (9)
       
9 (8) Cotyledons 1; radical leaves umbraculiform, pendulous when young.   100 Syneilesis
+ Cotyledons 2; basal leaves not umbraculiform, not pendulous when young   (10)
       
10 (9) Anthers caudate or sagittate; radical leaves withered by anthesis.   98 Parasenecio
+ Anthers obtuse, not caudate; radical leaves persistent at anthesis.   99 Ligulariopsis

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