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|accepted_name=Bebbia
|accepted_authority=Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|place=1: 179. 1885
|year=1885
}}
|common_names=Sweetbush
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Galinsoginae;Bebbia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Galinsoginae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bebbia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Michael S. Bebb, 1833–1895, American botanist and willow specialist
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 176
|treatment_page=page 177
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism atypical some measurement;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form;whole_organism atypical some measurement;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form"><b>Subshrubs </b>or shrubs, 50–140 [–300] cm (often forming dense, rounded masses).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem orientation"><b>Stems </b>erect or spreading (glabrous or rough hairy [sparsely hirsute]).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>cauline;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="">opposite (all or proximal) or alternate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="leaf position;leaf arrangement;leaf arrangement;leaf architecture">sessile [petiolate];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade arrangement or shape;blade arrangement or shape;blade shape;ultimate margin architecture or shape;face pubescence;face pubescence;face pubescence">blades linear to narrowly elliptic [± deltate, often hastate], sometimes lobed, ultimate margins entire [dentate], faces glabrous or ± scabrous [sparsely hirsute], sometimes glanddotted or stipitate-glandular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="head architecture or shape;head arrangement;head arrangement;array architecture"><b>Heads </b>usually discoid (sometimes ± disciform), borne singly or in corymbiform arrays.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="involucre shape;involucre width;involucre diameter"><b>Involucres </b>± campanulate or broader, 5–15 mm diam.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="phyllary duration;phyllary atypical quantity;phyllary quantity;series quantity"><b>Phyllaries </b>persistent, 15–30 [–40+] in 3–5 series (ovate or elliptic to lanceolate or lance-linear, strongly unequal; outer herbaceous, margins often chartaceous, ciliate, abaxial faces pubescent; inner more chartaceous, striate, margins ciliate, abaxial faces less pubescent to glabrate).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="receptacle shape;receptacle architecture"><b>Receptacles </b>convex, paleate (paleae persistent, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear-elliptic, conduplicate, each ± clasping a cypsela, scarious, striate, margins ciliate, abaxial faces glabrous or glabrate).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="ray-floret presence"><b>Ray-</b>florets 0.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="disc-floret quantity;disc-floret reproduction;disc-floret reproduction"><b>Disc-</b>florets usually 20–50, bisexual, fertile (sometimes 2–8+ peripheral florets lack anthers);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="corolla coloration;tube height or length or size;lobe quantity;lobe shape">corollas yellow to orange, tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela pubescence"><b>Cypselae </b>± compressed, ± obpyramidal, ± 3-angled, sericeous to strigillose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="scale quantity;scale shape;scale shape;series quantity">pappi of 15–25+ plumose, setiform scales in 1 series.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="x chromosome quantity">x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=whalen1977a
|text=Whalen, M. 1977. Taxonomy of Bebbia (Compositae: Heliantheae). Madroño 24: 112–123.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Bebbia
|author=Molly A. Whalen
|authority=Greene
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico
|reference=whalen1977a
|publication title=Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|publication year=1885
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Galinsoginae
|genus=Bebbia
|array architecture=corymbiform
|blade arrangement or shape=elliptic;linear to narrowly
|blade shape=lobed
|corolla coloration=yellow;orange
|cypsela pubescence=sericeous;strigillose
|cypsela shape=3-angled;obpyramidal;compressed
|disc-floret quantity=20;50
|disc-floret reproduction=fertile;bisexual
|face pubescence=stipitate-glandular;scabrous;glabrous
|head architecture or shape=discoid
|head arrangement=in corymbiform arrays;singly
|involucre diameter=5mm;15mm
|involucre shape=campanulate
|involucre width=broader
|leaf architecture=sessile
|leaf arrangement=alternate;opposite
|leaf position=cauline
|lobe quantity=5
|lobe shape=deltate
|phyllary atypical quantity=30;40
|phyllary duration=persistent
|phyllary quantity=15;30
|ray-floret presence=absent
|receptacle architecture=paleate
|receptacle shape=convex
|scale quantity=15;25
|scale shape=setiform;plumose
|series quantity=1;3;5
|stem orientation=spreading;erect
|tube height or length or size=shorter
|ultimate margin architecture or shape=entire
|whole_organism atypical some measurement=140cm;300cm
|whole_organism growth form=shrub;subshrub
|whole_organism some measurement=50cm;140cm
|x chromosome quantity=9
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