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|accepted_name=Sachsia
|accepted_authority=Grisebach
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cat. Pl. Cub.,
|place=150. 1866
|year=1866
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Plucheeae;Sachsia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Plucheeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sachsia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For F. G. J. von Sachs, 1832–1897, German plant physiologist, noted by Grisebach to be “ingeniosi”
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 12, 38, 58, 475, 478
|treatment_page=page 477
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 10–60+ cm; fibrous-rooted, sometimes rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> erect (scapiform), simple or distally branched, finely glandular, bases sericeous-woolly. <b>Leaves</b> all or mostly basal, alternate; sessile; blades obovate to oblanceolate or spatulate, bases not clasping, margins denticulate to dentate [pinnatifid], abaxial faces ± sericeous and glandular, adaxial glabrous (shiny, venation raised, reticulate). <b>Heads</b> radiate or disciform, in loose, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric-ovoid to urceolate, 2–3 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> falling in fruit, in 5–6 series, lance-ovate to lance-linear, unequal. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> or peripheral (pistillate) florets in 1(–3) series, fertile; corollas whitish (tubes filiform, laminae absent or ± developed and apically 3-toothed). <b>Inner</b> (functionally staminate or bisexual) florets 6–18; corollas whitish, lobes (4–)5. <b>Cypselae</b> cylindric to narrowly ellipsoid, ribs 8–12 (white, raised), faces strigillose; pappi persistent (fragile), of distinct or basally connate, smooth or barbellulate bristles in 1 series. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba;Hispaniola;Jamaica).
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The monotypic Rhodogeron Grisebach was transferred to <i>Sachsia</i> by A. A. Anderberg, who noted (1991b) that “…it is a derived relative of <i>Sachsia</i>. The two differ only in the shape of the leaves and the female florets” (leaves pinnatifid, ray florets with laminae well developed and relatively broad in Rhodogeron). Anderberg placed <i>Sachsia</i> as “Plucheeae insertae sedis,” and noted that “…the genus is anomalous, but could prove to belong in the Plucheeae, in spite of its acute sweeping hairs.” The two species of <i>Sachsia</i> other than <i>S. polycephala</i> are endemic to Cuba.</p>
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name=Sachsia
|author=Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Grisebach
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba;Hispaniola;Jamaica).
|reference=None
|publication title=Cat. Pl. Cub.,
|publication year=1866
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Plucheeae
|genus=Sachsia
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