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4. Subtribe SENECIONINAE

千里光亚族 qian li guang ya zu

Authors: Yilin Chen, Ying Liu, Qiner Yang, Bertil Nordenstam, Charles Jeffrey & Leszek Vincent

Antheropodia balusterform, with enlarged marginal basal cells; endothecial tissue with usually radial cell wall thickenings, rarely scattered; stigmatic areas usually discrete, rarely contiguous or confluent; gametic chromosome number usually 20 or 10, less often 52, 50, 30, 23, 22, 19, or 5.

About 100 genera and 2,500 species: worldwide (except Antarctica); nine genera (one endemic, three introduced) and 135 species (74 endemic, six introduced) in China.


1 Anther bases with sterile caudate auricles   (2)
+ Anther bases without sterile caudate auricles, obtuse to sagittate   (3)
       
2 (1) Plants erect or subscandent, without prehensile petioles.   106 Synotis
+ Plants scandent, with basally thickened, prehensile petioles.   107 Cissampelopsis
       
3 (1) Involucre not calyculate   (4)
+ Involucre calyculate   (6)
       
4 (3) Capitula homogamous, discoid.   112 Emilia
+ Capitula radiate   (5)
       
5 (4) Leaves cauline, palmately veined; ray lamina variously colored (never yellow).   113 Pericallis
+ Leaves rosulate, pinnately veined; ray lamina white.   114 Hainanecio
       
6 (3) Style branches erect, with long, subulate, papillose appendages.   111 Gynura
+ Style branches recurved, without papillose appendages   (7)
       
7 (6) Marginal female florets filiform.   110 Erechtites
+ Marginal female florets radiate or absent   (8)
       
8 (7) Apex of style branches without a central appendage of fused papillae.   108 Senecio
+ Apex of style branches with a central appendage of fused papillae.   109 Crassocephalum

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