Citation: Roth, Bot. Abh. Beobacht. 35 (1787).

Derivation: After J. J. Reichard, 1743-1782, German physician and botanist.

Synonymy: Picridium Desf., Fl. Atlant. 2:220 (1799).

Common name: None

Description:
Annual and perennial herbs with a tap root; stem terete; leaves basal and cauline, alternate, flat, entire to pinnatifid.

Capitula solitary, terminal, long-pedunculate, homogamous; involucre campanulate, multiseriate; bracts imbricate, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, unequal, herbaceous with scarious margins; receptacle flat, naked, pitted; florets all bisexual, ligulate; ligules broadly linear; corolla tube cylindrical and pubescent distally, narrowed and glabrous at the base; anthers tailed at the base, with short dark obtuse apical appendages; style branches linear, subterete, obtuse, finely papillose.

Achenes compressed-cylindrical, with 4 or 5 tuberculate angles, glabrous; pappus multiseriate, of simple bristles adhering at the base.

Distribution:  10 species in the Mediterranean region; 1 naturalised in Australia.

Biology: No text

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