View source for Mulgedium ← Mulgedium You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Mulgedium |accepted_authority=Cassini in F. Cuvier |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed. |place=2, 33: 296. 1824 |year=1824 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Mulgedium |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mulgedium]]</div></div> |etymology=Latin mulgere, to milk, alluding to milky sap |volume=Volume 19 |mention_page=page 215, 219, 259 |treatment_page=page 258 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>[annuals or biennials], 15–100+ cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="whole-organism some measurement;whole-organism architecture;whole-organism duration">± rhizomatous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem quantity;stem orientation;stem architecture;stem pubescence;stem pubescence"><b>Stems </b>usually 1, usually erect, branched distally, glabrous or glabrate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>basal and cauline or mostly cauline;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="leaf position;leaf position;leaf position;leaf architecture;leaf architecture">petiolate (basal) or sessile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape">blades oblong, elliptic, or ovate to lanceolate or linear, margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed (faces glabrous, often glaucous).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="head arrangement;head arrangement;array architecture"><b>Heads </b>borne singly or in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="peduncle shape;peduncle architecture"><b>Peduncles </b>not inflated distally, usually bracteate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="bractlet quantity;bractlet shape"><b>Calyculi </b>of 3–13+, deltate to lanceolate bractlets (sometimes intergrading with phyllaries).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="involucre shape;involucre diameter;involucre diameter"><b>Involucres </b>cylindric, 2–5 [–8+] mm diam.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="phyllary quantity;phyllary shape;phyllary size;phyllary variability;series quantity;margin texture;apex shape"><b>Phyllaries </b>8–13+ in 1–2 series, lanceolate to linear, subequal to equal, margins little, if at all, scarious, apices acute.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="receptacle prominence or shape;receptacle relief;receptacle pubescence;receptacle architecture"><b>Receptacles </b>flat, pitted, glabrous, epaleate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="floret atypical quantity;floret quantity"><b>Florets </b>(10–) 15–50+;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="corolla coloration">corollas usually bluish [yellow].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="cypsela coloration;body shape;body shape;beak presence;rib quantity;face pubescence"><b>Cypselae </b>reddish-brown to brown-mottled or slatey [blackish], bodies ± compressed, lanceoloid, beaks 0 (or gradually set off from and ± concolorous with bodies), ribs 4–6 on each face, faces glabrous [scabrid];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="bristle quantity;bristle coloration;bristle variability;bristle architecture;series quantity">pappi persistent (borne on discs at tips of cypselae or beaks), of 80–120+, whitish, ± equal, barbellulate to nearly smooth bristles in 2–3+ series.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="pappus duration;x chromosome quantity">x = 9.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=North America;Europe;Asia |discussion=<p>Species 15 or so (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>In referring a species long included in Lactuca to Mulgedium, I was influenced by K. Bremer (1994).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Mulgedium |author=John L. Strother |authority=Cassini in F. Cuvier |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Asteraceae |illustrator=Marjorie C. Leggitt |illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association |distribution=North America;Europe;Asia |reference=None |publication title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed. |publication year=1824 |special status= |source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V19-20-21/V19_345.xml |tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae |genus=Mulgedium |apex shape=acute |array architecture=corymbiform;paniculiform |beak presence=absent |blade shape=ovate;lanceolate or linear |body shape=lanceoloid;compressed |bractlet quantity=3;13 |bractlet shape=deltate;lanceolate |bristle architecture=barbellulate;nearly smooth |bristle coloration=whitish |bristle quantity=80;120 |bristle variability=equal |corolla coloration=bluish |cypsela coloration=reddish-brown;brown-mottled or slatey |face pubescence=glabrous |floret atypical quantity=10;15 |floret quantity=15;50 |head arrangement=in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays;singly |involucre diameter=2mm;5mm |involucre shape=cylindric |leaf architecture=sessile;petiolate |leaf position=cauline;cauline;basal |margin architecture or shape=dentate to pinnately lobed;entire |margin texture=scarious |pappus duration=persistent |peduncle architecture=bracteate |peduncle shape=inflated |phyllary quantity=8;13 |phyllary shape=lanceolate;linear |phyllary size=subequal |phyllary variability=equal |receptacle architecture=epaleate |receptacle prominence or shape=flat |receptacle pubescence=glabrous |receptacle relief=pitted |rib quantity=4;6 |series quantity=2;3 |stem architecture=branched |stem orientation=erect |stem pubescence=glabrate;glabrous |stem quantity=1 |whole-organism architecture=rhizomatous |whole-organism duration=perennial |whole-organism some measurement=15cm;100cm |x chromosome quantity=9 }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Asteraceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Mulgedium.