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|accepted_name=Egletes
|accepted_authority=Cassini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|place=1817: 153. 1817
|year=1817
}}
|common_names=Tropic daisy
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Egletes
|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>[[Egletes]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek aiglitis, splendor or glitter, perhaps alluding to heads
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 11
|treatment_page=page 35
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole-organism some measurement;whole-organism duration"><b>Annuals,</b> 10–60 cm (gland-dotted; taprooted).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem architecture;stem pubescence"><b>Stems </b>erect to decumbent, much branched, sometimes arachnose in early growth.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>basal and 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 position;leaf arrangement;leaf architecture;leaf architecture">petiolate or sessile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade shape;margin shape;face pubescence;face pubescence;face pubescence;face pubescence;face pubescence;face pubescence">blades (1-nerved) obovate to spatulate (bases clasping to subclasping), margins pinnatifid [lobed or toothed], (apices rounded to obtuse or acute) faces glabrous, villous, or tomentose, sometimes stipitate-glandular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="head architecture or arrangement;head arrangement;array architecture or fragility;array architecture"><b>Heads </b>radiate, usually borne singly (axillary, apparently opposite leaves), or in loose corymbiform arrays.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="involucre shape;involucre shape"><b>Involucres </b>shallowly hemispheric or cupulate, ([3–] 4–6 × 4–10 mm).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="phyllarie quantity;phyllarie shape;phyllarie size;phyllarie growth form or texture;phyllarie prominence or shape;series quantity;margin texture;margin texture;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence"><b>Phyllaries </b>10–25 in 2–3 series, lanceolate-triangular, subequal, thinly herbaceous, flat, margins scarious or not, abaxial faces glabrous or stipitate-glandular, villous, or tomentose.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="receptacle shape;receptacle relief;receptacle architecture"><b>Receptacles </b>conic, 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 18–28 [16–200] (in 1 [–4] series, 1-nerved, midnerves barely evident), pistillate, fertile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="corolla coloration">corollas white to bluish white (laminae broad or filiform, longer or shorter than involucres).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="disc-floret quantity;disc-floret reproduction;disc-floret reproduction"><b>Disc-</b>florets 130–300 bisexual, fertile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="corolla coloration;corolla shape;tube height or length or size;lobe quantity;lobe orientation;lobe shape">corollas yellow, tubular-funnelform (with slight differentiation of tubes and limbs), tubes shorter than throats, lobes 3–5, erect, deltate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="style-branch appendage shape">style-branch appendages triangular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela architecture or shape;cypsela pubescence;cypsela pubescence"><b>Cypselae </b>oblong to narrowly obovoid, slightly compressed, 2-ribbed, glabrous or stipitate-glandular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="">pappi whitish, coroniform (cartilaginous crowns or shallow cups [broad, flaring]).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="pappus coloration;pappus shape;x chromosome quantity">x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The species of Egletes occur mostly in coastal habitats, from south Texas and Mexico through Central America, northern South America, and the Lesser Antilles. Plants are characterized by their low, herbaceous habit; glandular-resinous vestiture; narrow, multiseriate, often inconspicuous rays; conic receptacles; and compressed, glandular cypselae with coroniform pappi.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Egletes
|author=Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|publication year=1817
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Egletes
|abaxial face pubescence=tomentose;villous;stipitate-glandular;glabrous;tomentose;villous;stipitate-glandular;glabrous;tomentose;villous;stipitate-glandular;glabrous
|array architecture=corymbiform
|array architecture or fragility=loose
|blade shape=obovate;spatulate
|corolla coloration=yellow;white;bluish white
|corolla shape=tubular-funnelform
|cypsela architecture or shape=2-ribbed
|cypsela pubescence=stipitate-glandular;glabrous
|cypsela shape=compressed;oblong;narrowly obovoid
|disc-floret quantity=130;300
|disc-floret reproduction=fertile;bisexual
|face pubescence=stipitate-glandular;tomentose;villous;tomentose;villous;glabrous
|head architecture or arrangement=radiate
|head arrangement=singly
|involucre shape=cupulate;hemispheric
|leaf architecture=sessile;petiolate
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|leaf position=cauline;basal
|lobe orientation=erect
|lobe quantity=3;5
|lobe shape=deltate
|margin shape=pinnatifid
|margin texture=not;scarious
|pappus coloration=whitish
|pappus shape=coroniform
|phyllarie growth form or texture=herbaceous
|phyllarie prominence or shape=flat
|phyllarie quantity=10;25
|phyllarie shape=lanceolate-triangular
|phyllarie size=subequal
|ray-floret architecture=pistillate
|ray-floret atypical quantity=16;200
|ray-floret quantity=18;28
|ray-floret reproduction=fertile
|receptacle architecture=epaleate
|receptacle relief=pitted
|receptacle shape=conic
|series quantity=2;3
|stem architecture=branched
|stem orientation=erect;decumbent
|stem pubescence=arachnose
|style-branch appendage shape=triangular
|tube height or length or size=shorter
|whole-organism duration=annual
|whole-organism some measurement=10cm;60cm
|x chromosome quantity=9
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