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|accepted_name=Flourensia
|accepted_authority=de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=5: 592. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae;Flourensia
|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>[[Flourensia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens, 1794–1867, physiologist, perpetual secretary, Académie des Sciences, Paris
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 65, 66, 119
|treatment_page=page 117
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs </b>or shrubs [trees], to 100(–200)[–500+] cm. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched from bases or ± throughout. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; alternate; petiolate [nearly sessile]; blades pinnately nerved, mostly elliptic to lance-oblong or ovate, bases rounded to cuneate, margins entire [toothed], faces glabrous or ± scabrellous, usually gland-dotted and vernicose. <b>Heads</b> discoid or radiate, borne ± singly or in ± spiciform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to hemispheric, 4–20 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 12–40 in 2–4+ series (subequal or unequal, outer longer). <b>Receptacles</b> flat to conic-ovoid, paleate (paleae conduplicate, cartilaginous to scarious). <b>Ray</b> florets 0 or [5–]13–21, either neuter, or styliferous and sterile; corollas yellow. <b>Disc</b> florets 10–50[–150], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes much shorter than cylindric-funnelform throats, lobes 5, ± deltate. <b>Cypselae</b> ± compressed or flattened [subterete], oblong to oblanceolate (not winged, ± sericeous); pappi persistent or tardily falling, of 2 subulate scales. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 30 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=dillon1984a
|text=Dillon, M. O. 1984. A systematic study of Flourensia (Asteraceae, Heliantheae). Fieldiana, Bot., n. s. 16: 1–66.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Shrubs; leaf blades elliptic to ovate, 10–25(–40+) × 4–15(–20) mm; ray florets 0
|[[Flourensia cernua|Flourensia cernua]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Subshrubs; leaf blades elliptic to lance-oblong, (20–)50–100 × 10–40+ mm; ray florets 13–21
|[[Flourensia pringlei|Flourensia pringlei]]
|}
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name=Flourensia
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|reference=dillon1984a
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=1836
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_286.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae
|genus=Flourensia
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