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|accepted_name=Wedelia
|accepted_authority=Jacquin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Syst. Pl.,
|place=8, 28. 1760
|year=1760
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae;Wedelia
|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 Ecliptinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Wedelia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For George Wolfgang Wedel, 1645–1721, botanist/professor at Jena
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 65, 66
|treatment_page=page 125
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs </b>or shrubs [annuals, perennials], 10–50(–100)[–250] cm. <b>Stems</b> mostly erect, branched from bases and/or throughout. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; opposite; petiolate or sessile; blades (3-nerved [pinnately nerved]) trullate to lanceolate or lance-linear [deltate, elliptic, filiform, linear, ovate], sometimes ± 3-lobed, bases cuneate to truncate, margins coarsely toothed to subentire, faces hispid [scabrous to scabrellous or strigose to strigillose, ± sericeous, often with finer, uncinate hairs as well], usually gland-dotted. <b>Heads</b> radiate (discoid), borne singly [in corymbiform arrays]. <b>Involucres</b> obconic to hemispheric, 4–8[–15] mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 8–16+ in 2–3+ series (outer usually larger and/or more herbaceous than inner). <b>Receptacles</b> convex, paleate (paleae conduplicate, chartaceous to scarious). <b>Ray</b> florets 0 or 4–18, pistillate, fertile [neuter]; corollas yellow to orange [purplish or white]. <b>Disc</b> florets 8–150+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow to orange [purplish], sometimes marked with purple, tubes shorter than or equaling funnelform or cylindric throats, lobes 5, deltate. <b>Cypselae</b> ± dimorphic; peripheral sometimes obcompressed and weakly 3-angled, inner compressed and biconvex or flattened [somewhat 4-angled] (some or all winged, all ± rostrate, bearing central neck or boss apically, some or all each bearing wartlike elaiosome at base); pappi persistent, cyathiform (fimbriate cups plus 0–3 coarse bristles or awns borne together on rostra). <b>x</b> = 13?</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical and subtropical New World.
|discussion=<p>Species 25+ (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>African aspilias may belong within <i>Wedelia</i>.</p><!--
--><p><i>Wedelia</i> glauca is treated herein as <i>Pascalia glauca</i>, W. trilobata as <i>Sphagneticola trilobata</i>. A report of Stemmodontia asperrima (Sprengel) C. Mohr from ballast may be source of reports of W. calycina Richard or W. frutescens Jacquin from Alabama. I have seen no specimens to support those reports.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Wedelia
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Tropical and subtropical New World.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Syst. Pl.,
|publication year=1760
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae
|genus=Wedelia
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