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Phalacroseris bolanderi
Sign in to savePhalacroseris is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae containing the single species Phalacroseris bolanderi, which is known by the common name '''Bolander's mock dandelion'''.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Phalacroseris bolanderi is referenced by 3 other articles, and connects out to California, plant and Wikidata.
It sits within the topics Cichorieae, Endemic flora of California and Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States).
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderAsterales
- FamilyAsteraceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 127
- With media
- 93
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Collections
- DAV, CAS, SJSU, SDSU, US, LA
- Recorded in
- United States
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Encyclopedic overview
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Phalacroseris is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae containing the single species Phalacroseris bolanderi, which is known by the common name '''Bolander's mock dandelion'.
==Description== Phalacroseris is a perennial herb with fleshy herbage growing from a woody caudex. The leaves are located around the base of the plant, growing up to 20 centimeters long and linear to somewhat lance-shaped. The inflorescence reaches up to 35 centimeters tall and is topped with a head filled with many golden ray florets. There are no disc florets. The fruit is a hairless, speckled, four-angled achene about 3 millimeters long. There is usually no pappus, but some achenes have vestigial pappus structures on their flat tops.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phalacroseris bolanderi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.