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Herbs, erect, branched; stems pubescent. Leaves alternate, entire or dentate.
Heads heterogamous, disciform, terminal or axillary, usually cernuous, small.
Involucre hemispherical. Involucral bracts multiseriate; the outer ones longer,
leafy; the inner ones shorter or subscarious. Receptacle flat, naked. Outer florets
female, numerous, tubular, 3 - 5-lobed. Ray florets female, numerous, tubular,
3 - 5-lobed. Disc florets bisexual, 5-lobed. Achenes linear, elongate, striate,
costate, narrowed and rostrate above; rostrum often glandular with a thickened
corona. Pappus absent.
Temperate and subtropical Asia, S. Europe; ca 20 species, 3 in India.
KEY TO THE SPECIES
| 1a. Heads numerous, almost erect, inserted along the whole length of branches; leaves
sessile or subsessile
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1.
Carpesium abrotanoides
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| b. Heads solitary or few, nodding. terminal or subracemose; lower leaves petioled
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2
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| 2a. Heads 0.4 - 0.6 cm across; involucral bracts mucronate, recurved; achenes glabrous,
punctate at beak and base
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3.
Carpesium trachelifolium
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| b. Heads 0.6 - 2.5 cm across; involucral bracts acute or obtuse, not recurved; achenes
glandular at beak and base
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2.
Carpesium cernuum
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