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|accepted_name=Florestina
|accepted_authority=Cassini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|place=1817: 11. 1817
|year=1817
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae;Florestina
|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 Chaenactidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Florestina]]</div></div>
|etymology=No etymology given; possibly from Latin floreus, of flowers, and tina, a wine vessel; perhaps alluding to sometimes purplish involucres
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 364, 365
|treatment_page=page 392
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>[perennials], 10–60 cm. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched (mostly distally). <b>Leaves</b> cauline; opposite (proximal) or alternate (mostly); mostly petiolate; blades (3- or 5-nerved) simple (proximal and distal) or (mid-cauline) 3- or 5-lobed or -foliolate; blades or leaflets broadly to narrowly oblong to ovate, ultimate margins entire, faces sparsely to moderately scabrous (hairs white, antrorse, 0.3–0.7 mm), usually gland-dotted as well. <b>Heads</b> discoid, in ± corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> obconic to subhemispheric, 3–6+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> falling, 4–14 in 1–2 series (obovate to oblanceolate, subequal, thin-herbaceous, margins scarious, sometimes purplish). <b>Receptacles</b> concave to convex, knobby or smooth (sometimes minutely setose or hairy), epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets 10–30+, bisexual, fertile; corollas whitish, sparsely glandular-hairy, tubes longer than funnelform throats, lobes 5, lance-linear (often unequal). <b>Cypselae</b> obpyramidal, 4-angled, faces sometimes ribbed, sparsely hairy (hairs curled); pappi persistent, of 8–12 (distinct) spatulate to lanceolate [suborbiculate], medially thickened, laterally scarious scales in 1 series (some, all, or the alternate aristate). <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;Central America.
|discussion=<p>Species 8 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Florestinas are closely related to, perhaps congeneric with, palafoxias.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=turner1963a
|text=Turner, B. L. 1963. Taxonomy of Florestina (Helenieae, Compositae). Brittonia 15: 27–46.
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name=Florestina
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;Central America.
|reference=turner1963a
|publication title=Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris
|publication year=1817
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_987.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae
|genus=Florestina
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