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Hieracium L.

山柳菊屬

Hieracium morii

Credit: HAST

Perennial herbs, hispid scabrous-glandular or glabrous, stems leafy. Leaves alternate, cauline or radical, entire or serrate. Heads solitary or in loose panicles or corymbs, with yellow to orange-yellow, or rarely red flowers. Involucre tubular-campanulate, usually with blackish hairs, bracts narrow, herbaceous, inner principal bracts in 1-3 series, nearly equal, outer smaller. Receptacle flat, glabrous or short fimbriate. Corolla ligulate, tube slightly shorter to as long as limb, truncate, 5-toothed at apex. Anthers sagittate at base. Style branches slender. Achenes cylindric, smooth, 10- or 15-ribbed and terete, or 4- or 5-ribbed and angled, truncate at apex, not beaked. Pappus copious, 1- or 2-series, stiff, simple, persistent, brownish bristles.

About 90 to more than 1,000 species, depending on species concept. Mainly Europe and temperate Asia, also in North and South America and Africa. One species in Taiwan.

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