Genus: Leuzea

Genus description:

Biennals or perennials. Stems simple, rarely sparcely branched. Leaves entire to lyrate or pinnatifid. Capitula solitary, terminal. Involucre ovoi-globose or globose; bracts imbricate, with membranous, entire or lacerate appendages. Florets all hermaphrodite. Anthers with obtuse basal appendages. Achenes oviod or turbinate, sometimes compressed, glabrous; pappus-hairs in several rows, plumose or barbellate, connate into an annulus at the base

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