Tolpis

Adanson

Fam. Pl. 2: 112, 612. 1763.

Etymology: No etymology in protologue no readily discernible meaning from Greek or Latin roots
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 277. Mentioned on page 218.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA19 P26 Tolpis barbata.jpegTolpis barbata
Hieracium caespitosum
Hieracium gronovii
Marjorie C. Leggitt
Barbara Alongi
Barbara Alongi

Annuals [perennials, shrubs], 5–100+ cm; taprooted. Stems usually 1, erect, branched distally, glabrous or hairy. Leaves basal and cauline; basal sessile or petiolate, distal usually sessile; blades ovatelanceolate or oblanceolate to lanceolate or linear, margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed or pinnatisect (faces glabrous or sparsely pubescent or arachnose to villous). Heads borne singly or in loose, corymbiform arrays (terminal heads often surpassed by others). Peduncles not inflated, bracteate. Calyculi of 8–13, linear to filiform bractlets (often intergrading with peduncular bracts). Involucres campanulate, 5–10 [–15+] mm diam. (larger in fruit). Phyllaries 20–25+ in 2+ series, lance-linear to linear (± navicular proximally, enfolding ovaries/cypselae of subtended florets, sometimes keeled abaxially), subequal to equal, margins little, if at all, scarious, apices filiform, faces ± arachnose. Receptacles flat, pitted, glabrous, epaleate. Florets 30–100+; corollas mostly yellow (inner sometimes purplish or brown). Cypselae brownish to blackish, ± columnar [obconic], not beaked, ribs or nerves usually 6–8 (–10), faces glabrous or ± hirtellous; pappi persistent, of 4–15 (–30+), whitish, smooth or barbellulate, setiform scales plus bristles (often equal on outer cypselae and unequal on inner ones). x = 9.

Distribution

Introduced; Europe, Africa, Atlantic Islands

Discussion

Species ca. 20 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

"fine" is not a number.

... more about "Tolpis"
filiform +
scarious +
ovate +  and lanceolate +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
John L. Strother +
Adanson +
petiolate +  and sessile +
decurrent +
compound +  and simple +
oblanceolate;lanceolate or linear +
tuberculate +, rugose +, muricate +  and smooth +
filiform +
zygomorphic +, actinomorphic +  and (3-)5-merous +
brownish +  and blackish +
Europe +, Africa +  and Atlantic Islands +
No etymology in protologue +  and no readily discernible meaning from Greek or Latin roots +
hirtellous +, glabrous +  and arachnose +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
in loose , corymbiform arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
each +  and sessile +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
campanulate +
sessile +  and petiolate +
cauline +  and basal +
dentate to pinnately lobed or pinnatisect +  and entire +
divided +, lobed +  and dentate +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
not inflated +
lance-linear +  and linear +
connate +  and distinct +
20 +  and 25 +
flat;convex +
barbellulate +  and smooth +
4 +  and 15 +
setiform +
exalbuminous +
hairy +  and glabrous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Undefined tribe Lactuceae +
Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +