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|accepted_name=Gynura
|accepted_authority=Cassini in F. Cuvier
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|place=2, 34: 391. 1825
|year=1825
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Gynura
|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>[[Gynura]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek, presumably gyne, a female, and ura, tail, perhaps alluding to style branches
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 540, 542
|treatment_page=page 610
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole-organism average some measurement;whole-organism some measurement;whole-organism duration"><b>Perennials </b>[subshrubs, vines], 20–100 [300+] cm (± velutinous or villous [hispid, puberulent, glabrous], hairs often purplish).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem quantity;stem orientation;stem orientation;stem orientation;stem orientation;stem orientation"><b>Stems </b>usually 1, weakly erect, spreading, or clambering (branched).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>[basal and/or] 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;leaf architecture">petiolate (petiole bases sometimes expanded, weakly clasping) or sessile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade architecture;blade shape;margin shape;face pubescence">blades pinnately nerved, ovate or elliptic to rhombic [oblanceolate or lanceolate to linear], margins [entire or subentire] toothed [coarsely pinnate], faces velutinous to villous [glabrous, hispid, puberulent].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="head architecture or shape;head arrangement;array architecture;array architecture"><b>Heads </b>discoid, usually in corymbiform or paniculiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="bractlet quantity"><b>Calyculi </b>of 3–8+ bractlets.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="involucre shape;involucre diameter;involucre diameter;involucre diameter"><b>Involucres </b>cylindric to campanulate [urceolate], [3–] 8–12 [–15+] mm diam.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="phyllarie duration;phyllarie quantity;phyllarie orientation;phyllarie fusion;phyllarie arrangement or course or shape;phyllarie size;series atypical quantity;series quantity;margin texture"><b>Phyllaries </b>persistent, [8] ± 13 in (1–) 2+ series, erect (reflexed in fruit), distinct (margins interlocking), linear, subequal, margins scarious.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="receptacle prominence or shape;receptacle relief;receptacle architecture"><b>Receptacles </b>flat, foveolate (knobby in fruit), 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 atypical quantity;disc-floret quantity;disc-floret reproduction;disc-floret reproduction"><b>Disc-</b>florets [20–] 30–80+, bisexual, fertile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="corolla coloration;tube length or size;lobe quantity;lobe orientation;lobe orientation;lobe shape">corollas yellow or orange to brick-red [purplish, ochroleucous, or white], tubes longer than funnelform throats, lobes 5, erect or reflexed, deltate to lanceolate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="style-branch structure in adjective form;line quantity;appendage shape">style-branches stigmatic in 2 lines, apices with (orange or reddish) ± filiform appendages (hispidulous, 1–2 mm).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela shape;cypsela pubescence"><b>Cypselae </b>± columnar or prismatic, 5–10-angled or ribbed, glabrous [hairy];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="bristle quantity;bristle coloration;bristle architecture;bristle architecture">pappi persistent or fragile, of 60–80+, white, smooth or barbellulate bristles.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="pappus duration;pappus fragility;x chromosome quantity">x = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=tropical Asia;Africa (including Madagascar);sw Pacific Islands;Australia
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 40 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Some species of Gynura are important in the horticultural trade; abundant literature is accessible through gardening compendia.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=cronquist1978a
|text=Cronquist, A. 1978c. Gynura. In: N. L. Britton et al., eds. 1905+. North American Flora.... 47+ vols. New York. Ser. 2, part 10, pp. 150–151.
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|id=davis1981a
|text=Davis, F. G. 1981. The genus Gynura (Compositae) in Malesia and Australia. Kew Bull. 35: 711–734.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Gynura
|author=Theodore M. Barkley†
|authority=Cassini in F. Cuvier
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=tropical Asia;Africa (including Madagascar);sw Pacific Islands;Australia
|introduced=true
|reference=cronquist1978a;davis1981a
|publication title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1825
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Gynura
|appendage shape=filiform
|array architecture=paniculiform;corymbiform
|blade architecture=nerved
|blade shape=elliptic;rhombic
|bractlet quantity=3;8
|bristle architecture=barbellulate;smooth
|bristle coloration=white
|bristle quantity=60;80
|corolla coloration=orange;brick-red
|cypsela pubescence=glabrous
|cypsela shape=ribbed;5-10-angled;prismatic;columnar;ribbed;5-10-angled;prismatic;columnar
|disc-floret atypical quantity=20;30
|disc-floret quantity=30;80
|disc-floret reproduction=fertile;bisexual
|face pubescence=velutinous;villous
|head architecture or shape=discoid
|head arrangement=singly
|involucre diameter=8mm;12mm
|involucre shape=cylindric;campanulate
|leaf architecture=sessile;petiolate
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|leaf position=cauline
|line quantity=2
|lobe orientation=reflexed;erect
|lobe quantity=5
|lobe shape=deltate;lanceolate
|margin shape=toothed
|margin texture=scarious
|pappus duration=persistent
|pappus fragility=fragile
|phyllarie arrangement or course or shape=linear
|phyllarie duration=persistent
|phyllarie fusion=distinct
|phyllarie orientation=erect
|phyllarie quantity=13
|phyllarie size=subequal
|ray-floret presence=absent
|receptacle architecture=epaleate
|receptacle prominence or shape=flat
|receptacle relief=foveolate
|series atypical quantity=1;2
|stem orientation=clambering;spreading;clambering;spreading;erect
|stem quantity=1
|style-branch structure in adjective form=stigmatic
|tube length or size=longer
|whole-organism average some measurement=300cm;20cm
|whole-organism duration=perennial
|whole-organism some measurement=20cm;100cm
|x chromosome quantity=10
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