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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Benitoa
|accepted_authority=D. D. Keck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|place=8: 26. 1956
|year=1956
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Benitoa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Benitoa]]</div></div>
|etymology=For San Benito County, California, alluding to distribution
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 3, 9
|treatment_page=page 450
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole-organism some measurement;whole-organism duration"><b>Annuals,</b> mostly 10–100 cm (taprooted).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem architecture;stem pubescence"><b>Stems </b>erect, branched distally, stipitate-glandular (at least distally).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>cauline (at flowering);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="">alternate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="leaf position;leaf arrangement;leaf architecture;leaf architecture">sessile or petiolate (bases of blades ± decurrent onto petioles);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade architecture;blade shape;margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape;face pubescence">blades 1 (–3+) -nerved, oblanceolate to linear (sessile, smaller, bractlike distally), margins entire or nearly so, faces stipitate-glandular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="head architecture or arrangement;head arrangement;head arrangement;array architecture;array architecture"><b>Heads </b>radiate, borne singly or in open, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="involucre shape;involucre length;involucre width"><b>Involucres </b>± campanulate to turbinate or fusiform, (8–10 ×) 3–5 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="phyllarie quantity;phyllarie architecture;phyllarie shape;phyllarie size;phyllarie texture;series atypical quantity;series quantity;margin texture;gland shape"><b>Phyllaries </b>22–35+ in (4–) 5–6+ series, 1-nerved (flat), lanceolate to linear, unequal, herbaceous to ± cartilaginous, margins scarious, apices (slightly spreading to nearly squarrose) some or all bearing a tack-shaped gland.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="receptacle prominence or shape;receptacle relief;receptacle architecture"><b>Receptacles </b>flat, pitted, epaleate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="ray-floret atypical quantity;ray-floret quantity;ray-floret architecture;ray-floret reproduction"><b>Ray-</b>florets 5–8 (–13+), pistillate, fertile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="corolla coloration">corollas yellow (occasionally suffused with red, becoming revolute).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="disc-floret quantity;disc-floret architecture"><b>Disc-</b>florets 9–20+, functionally staminate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="corolla coloration;tube variability;throat shape;lobe quantity;lobe orientation;lobe shape">corollas yellow, tubes about equaling funnelform to campanulate throats, lobes 5, erect, lance-deltate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="style-branch appendage shape">style-branch appendages lanceolate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela architecture;face pubescence"><b>Cypselae </b>(mottled purple-brown) ± plumply clavate, ± triquetrous, 3-nerved, faces sericeous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="scale quantity;scale coloration;scale shape;scale architecture;series quantity">pappi readily falling (fragile), of 2–8 whitish, subulate, barbellate scales (flattened bristles) in 1 series.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="pappus life cycle;x chromosome quantity">x = 5.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=markos2001a
|text=Markos, S. and B. G. Baldwin. 2001. Higher-level relationships and major lineages of Lessingia (Compositae, Astereae) based on nuclear rDNA internal and external transcribed spacer (ITS and ETS) sequences. Syst. Bot. 26: 168–183.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Benitoa
|author=Staci Markos;John L. Strother
|authority=D. D. Keck
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=markos2001a
|publication title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|publication year=1956
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Benitoa
|array architecture=corymbiform;paniculiform
|blade architecture=1(-3+)-nerved
|blade shape=oblanceolate;linear
|corolla coloration=yellow;yellow
|cypsela architecture=3-nerved
|cypsela shape=triquetrous;clavate
|disc-floret architecture=staminate
|disc-floret quantity=9;20
|face pubescence=sericeous;stipitate-glandular
|gland shape=tack--shaped
|head architecture or arrangement=radiate
|head arrangement=in open , corymbiform to paniculiform arrays;singly
|involucre length=[8mm;10mm
|involucre shape=less campanulate;turbinate or fusiform
|involucre width=]3mm;5mm
|leaf architecture=petiolate;sessile
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|leaf position=cauline
|lobe orientation=erect
|lobe quantity=5
|lobe shape=lance-deltate
|margin architecture or shape=nearly;entire
|margin texture=scarious
|pappus life cycle=falling
|phyllarie architecture=1-nerved
|phyllarie quantity=22;35
|phyllarie shape=lanceolate;linear
|phyllarie size=unequal
|phyllarie texture=herbaceous;more or less cartilaginous
|ray-floret architecture=pistillate
|ray-floret atypical quantity=8;13
|ray-floret quantity=5;8
|ray-floret reproduction=fertile
|receptacle architecture=epaleate
|receptacle prominence or shape=flat
|receptacle relief=pitted
|scale architecture=barbellate
|scale coloration=whitish
|scale quantity=2;8
|scale shape=subulate
|series atypical quantity=4;5
|series quantity=1;5;6
|stem architecture=branched
|stem orientation=erect
|stem pubescence=stipitate-glandular
|style-branch appendage shape=lanceolate
|throat shape=campanulate
|tube variability=equaling
|whole-organism duration=annual
|whole-organism some measurement=10cm;100cm
|x chromosome quantity=5
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