Facelis

Cassini

Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1819: 94. 1819.

Etymology: Etymology unknown
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 442. Mentioned on page 58, 384, 387.
 TaxonIllustrator 
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Facelis retusa
Logfia filaginoides
Barbara Alongi
Barbara Alongi
Linny Heagy

Annuals, 3–30 cm (taprooted or fibrous-rooted, not stoloniferous). Stems usually 1, erect to decumbent. Leaves cauline; alternate; sessile; blades spatulate or oblanceolate to lance-linear, bases ± cuneate, margins entire (usually revolute), faces bicolor, abaxial gray, tomentose, adaxial green, glabrous. Heads disciform, usually in ± capitate to loose, spiciform arrays, rarely borne singly (in leaf-axils). Involucres narrowly ovoid or nearly cylindric [campanulate or broadly turbinate], 8–11 mm. Phyllaries in 3–5+ series, usually greenish to stramineous, sometimes purplish (hyaline, stereomes not glandular), unequal, chartaceous toward tips. Receptacles flat, smooth, epaleate. Peripheral (pistillate) florets 10–25 (more numerous than bisexual); corollas whitish to purplish. Inner (bisexual) florets 3–5; corollas white to purplish. Cypselae obovoid, ± compressed (2–3-nerved), faces silvery sericeous (hairs not myxogenic); pappi persistent, of 20–30+, distinct or basally connate, ± plumose bristles in 1 series. x = 14.

Distribution

North America, South America, Africa, Australia

Discussion

Species 3 or 4 (1 in the flora).

Lower Taxa

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truncate-penicillate;truncate +
scarious +
mostly ovate +  and lanceovate or linear +
spiciform +, less capitate +  and loose +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Guy L. Nesom +
Cassini +
cuneate +
compound +  and simple +
oblanceolate;lance-linear +
5-ribbed +, 3-ribbed +  and 2-ribbed +
muriculate +, papillate +  and smooth +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
white +  and purplish +
compressed +  and obovoid +
North America +, South America +, Africa +  and Australia +
Etymology unknown +
silvery;bicolor +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
cylindric;ovoid +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
rarely lanceovate +  and lanceolate +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
conic;more or less columnar +
beauverd1913a +
exalbuminous +
erect +  and decumbent +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Compositae +
Facelis +
Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +