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|accepted_name=Delairea
|accepted_authority=Lemaire
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.
|place=3, 1: 379. 1844
|year=1844
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Delairea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Delairea]]</div></div>
|etymology=For “Dom. Delaire,” who sent a specimen to Lemaire from a garden in the Orléans district of France
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 542
|treatment_page=page 608
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form"><b>Vines,</b> to 600+ cm (perennating bases unknown; herbage glabrous).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem quantity;stem growth form;stem growth form"><b>Stems </b>usually 1, scrambling and twining (branched).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>cauline;</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">petiolate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade architecture;blade shape;margin architecture or shape;face pubescence">blades palmately nerved, polygonal to ± orbiculate (bases often cordate), margins dentate, faces glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="head architecture or shape;array architecture"><b>Heads </b>discoid, in corymbiform arrays (terminal or from axils of distal leaves).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="bractlet atypical quantity;bractlet quantity"><b>Calyculi </b>of 1–4 (–5) bractlets.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="involucre shape;involucre diameter"><b>Involucres </b>cylindric to weakly turbinate, 2–4 mm diam.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="phyllarie duration;phyllarie atypical quantity;phyllarie quantity;phyllarie orientation;phyllarie fusion;phyllarie arrangement or course or shape;phyllarie variability;series quantity;margin texture"><b>Phyllaries </b>persistent, (7–) 8+ in 1–2 series, erect, distinct (margins interlocking), lance-linear, ± equal, margins scarious (apices green or yellowish green).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="receptacle shape;receptacle relief;receptacle architecture"><b>Receptacles </b>convex, ± foveolate (socket margins often membranous), epaleate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="ray-floret presence"><b>Ray-</b>florets 0.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="disc-floret quantity;disc-floret reproduction;disc-floret reproduction"><b>Disc-</b>florets 8–25, bisexual, fertile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="corolla coloration;tube shape;lobe quantity;lobe orientation;lobe shape">corollas pale-yellow, tubes shorter than campanulate to funnelform throats, lobes 5, recurved, lance-deltate to lanceolate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="style-branch structure in adjective form;line quantity;apex architecture or shape">style-branches stigmatic in 2 lines, apices ± truncate (appendages essentially 0).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela pubescence"><b>Cypselae </b>± prismatic, 5-angled, glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="bristle atypical quantity;bristle quantity;bristle coloration;bristle architecture">pappi readily falling or fragile, of 40–60 (–100+), white, barbellulate bristles.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="pappus life cycle;pappus fragility;x chromosome quantity">x = 10.</span><!--

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|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Delairea
|author=Theodore M. Barkley†
|authority=Lemaire
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=South Africa;Australia
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.
|publication year=1844
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Delairea
|apex architecture or shape=truncate
|array architecture=corymbiform
|blade architecture=nerved
|blade shape=polygonal;more or less orbiculate
|bractlet atypical quantity=4;5
|bractlet quantity=1;4
|bristle architecture=barbellulate
|bristle atypical quantity=60;100
|bristle coloration=white
|bristle quantity=40;60
|corolla coloration=pale-yellow
|cypsela pubescence=glabrous
|cypsela shape=5-angled;prismatic
|disc-floret quantity=8;25
|disc-floret reproduction=fertile;bisexual
|face pubescence=glabrous
|head architecture or shape=discoid
|involucre diameter=2mm;4mm
|involucre shape=cylindric;weakly turbinate
|leaf architecture=petiolate
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|leaf position=cauline
|line quantity=2
|lobe orientation=recurved
|lobe quantity=5
|lobe shape=lance-deltate;lanceolate
|margin architecture or shape=dentate
|margin texture=scarious
|pappus fragility=fragile
|pappus life cycle=falling
|phyllarie arrangement or course or shape=lance-linear
|phyllarie atypical quantity=7;8
|phyllarie duration=persistent
|phyllarie fusion=distinct
|phyllarie orientation=erect
|phyllarie variability=equal
|ray-floret presence=absent
|receptacle architecture=epaleate
|receptacle relief=foveolate
|receptacle shape=convex
|series quantity=1;2
|stem growth form=twining;scrambling
|stem quantity=1
|style-branch structure in adjective form=stigmatic
|tube shape=campanulate
|whole_organism growth form=vine
|whole_organism some measurement=0cm;600cm
|x chromosome quantity=10
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