Pseudogynoxys
Brittonia 7: 54. 1950.
| Taxon | Illustrator ⠉ | |
|---|---|---|
 | Emilia sonchifolia Pericallis hybrida Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides | Linny Heagy Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey |
Vines (herbaceous or suffrutescent), 50–500+ cm. Stems usually 1, ± twining and climbing. Leaves cauline; alternate; petiolate; blades palmati-pinnately nerved, ovate to lanceolate, margins dentate to denticulate, faces ± villous. Heads radiate [discoid], in ± corymbiform arrays or borne singly. Calyculi of 10–20 bractlets. Involucres hemispheric or campanulate to turbinate or cylindric, [4–] 12–20 (–25+) mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, [8–] 12–26+ in (1–) 2 series, erect, distinct, lance-linear to linear, equal or subequal, margins membranous (apices sometimes black). Receptacles flat, foveolate, epaleate. Ray-florets 6–15+, pistillate, fertile; corollas orange to ± brick-red. Disc-florets [12–] 40–80+, bisexual, fertile; corollas orange, tubes longer than campanulate throats, lobes 5, erect to reflexed, lanceovate to lance-linear; style-branches stigmatic in 2 lines, apices with lance-attenuate appendages. Cypselae ± cylindric, weakly ribbed, puberulent; pappi persistent, of 100–120+, white, barbellulate bristles.
Distribution
Introduced; Mexico, West Indies, Central America, tropical South America
Discussion
Species ca. 12 (1 in the flora).