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Hypochaeris
Sign in to saveHypochaeris is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae. Many species are known as '''cat's ear'''. These are annual and perennial herbs generally bearing flower heads with yellow ray florets. These plants may resemble or be confused with dandelions and so some are called false dandelions.
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Hypochaeris is a genus of plants within the family Asteraceae. It belongs to the order Asterales, class Magnoliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta. The genus is classified under the kingdom Plantae and has the accepted authority L. It is also associated with the common name Costolina.
Records for Hypochaeris are documented across several countries, including Peru, Brasil, Tunisia, the United States, and Morocco. Institutional collections holding records include the University of Alberta Museums, UFRGS, NY, USF, and F. The genus has 992,941 occurrences recorded in the GBIF database and 1,186 records in iDigBio, which includes 591 media items.
Synthesized by Vinony from 28 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, Gbif Occ, Plants of the World, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
Costolina
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderAsterales
- FamilyAsteraceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,186
- With media
- 591
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, UFRGS, NY, USF, F, ASU
- Recorded in
- Peru, Brasil, Tunisia, United States, Morocco, Algeria, Argentina, Perú
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cichorioideae
- Image
- Illustration Hypochoeris radicata0.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hypochaeris
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Hypochaeris
- topic's main category
- Category:Hypochaeris
- taxon common name
- svinjak
- has fruit type
- achene
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
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Hypochaeris is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae. Many species are known as '''cat's ear'. These are annual and perennial herbs generally bearing flower heads with yellow ray florets. These plants may resemble or be confused with dandelions and so some are called false dandelions.
Estimates of the number of species range from about 50 up to about 100. Most species are native to South America, but some are found in Eurasia and North Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hypochaeris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.