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Hypochaeris radicata L.

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Hypochaeris radicata L., Sp. Pl. 811 (1753)
Hypochaeris radicata L.
Names_Fungi record source Hypochaeris radicata L.

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New Zealand
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Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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L.
L.
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
1753
811
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Hypochaeris radicata L.
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Hypochaeris radicata

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Compositae
Hypochaeris
radicata

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Orobanche minor Sm.
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Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Hypochaeris radicata L.

Perennial. Stems ascending to erect, usually branched, glabrous or with a few sparse hairs below, 4-60-(150) cm tall. Lvs all basal, oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, usually shallowly to deeply pinnatifid, rarely simple and toothed, (2)-4-20-(40) × (0.5)-0.8-4-(9) cm, with moderately dense pale strigose hairs. Stem bracts few, minute. Capitula turbinate to campanulate. Involucral bracts linear-lanceolate with narrowly acute apex, 6-15 mm long at flowering, up to 20 mm long at fruiting, glabrous except for a row of strigose hairs on midrib (the distal hairs dark), herbaceous or with narrow scarious border. Florets yellow, c. 11/2× length of involucre. Achenes dark brown, scabrid, fusiform, beaked, 8-16 mm long, sometimes the outer achenes not or shortly beaked and then shorter. Pappus in 2 rows, the outer hairs short, slender, scabrid to plumose, the inner up to 12 mm long, plumose.

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Hypochaeris radicata L.
Hypochaeris radicata L.
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Hypochaeris radicata L.
Hypochaeris L.
Hypochaeris radicata L.
Hypochaeris radicata L.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Hypochaeris radicata L.
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Two spellings of the genus have been used: Hypochaeris and Hypochoeris. The name was published by Linnaeus in Species plantarum (Linnaeus 1753), as Hypochaeris. Linnaeus used Hypochoeris in Genera plantarum ed. 5 (Linnaeus 1754). However, he reverted to Hypochaeris in later works, such as later editions of Species plantarum. Article 13.4 of the Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Greuter et al. 2000) explicitly states that "The spelling of the generic names included in Species plantarum, ed. 1 [1753], is not to be altered because a diffrent spelling has been used in Genera plantarum, ed. 5 [1754]". For "early" names the transliterations of the original authors must be retained (Article 60.7). It therefore seems quite clear that Hypochaeris is the correct name.
Steel, J.B.; Wilson, J.B.: 'Hypochoeris'/ 'Hypochaeris': New Zealand usage is wrong and the rest of the world is right . Botanical Society of Otago Newsletter 37: 5–7.

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1 January 2000
20 November 2013
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