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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Amblyolepis
|accepted_authority=de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=5: 667. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|common_names=Huisache-daisy
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Helenium sect. Amblyolepis
|authority=(de Candolle) Bentham
|rank=section
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Gaillardiinae;Amblyolepis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Gaillardiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Amblyolepis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek ambly, blunt, and lepis, scale
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 415, 416
|treatment_page=page 420
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> 10–60 cm (herbage sweet scented). <b>Stems</b> (1–10) erect or ± decumbent, unbranched or sparingly branched distally, sparsely to densely pilose. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; alternate; petiolate; blades lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate, or spatulate, margins entire, faces usually sparsely to moderately pilose (especially on margins), sometimes glabrate or glabrous. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly or (2–45) in paniculiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric to globose, 12–20 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 17–21 in 2 series (outer usually distinct, sometimes connate proximally, green, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, herbaceous, moderately to densely pilose, especially bases and margins; inner phyllaries distinct, obovate, hyaline, scalelike, glabrous). <b>Receptacles</b> globose to ovoid, ± pitted, usually epaleate (outer disc florets rarely subtended by paleae, central disc florets usually subtended by persistent enations). <b>Ray</b> florets 8–13(–20), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow. <b>Disc</b> florets 20–50, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform to cylindric-campanulate throats, lobes 5, ± deltate (glabrous). <b>Cypselae</b> narrowly obconic, prominantly 10-ribbed, densely pubescent; pappi persistent, of 5–6 ovate to obovate scales. <b>x</b> = 19.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tex.;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=bierner1990a
|text=Bierner, M. W. 1990. Present status of Amblyolepis (Asteraceae: Heliantheae). Madroño 37: 133–140.
}}
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name=Amblyolepis
|author=Mark W. Bierner
|authority=de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=Helenium sect. Amblyolepis
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Tex.;n Mexico.
|reference=bierner1990a
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=1836
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_1052.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Gaillardiinae
|genus=Amblyolepis
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