Centaurea oliverana, DC.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 266

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293764

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scientific name

Centaurea oliverana
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37. C. oliverana DC. , Prodr. 6: 590 (1838).

Stems 30-60 cm, simple or sparingly branched above, white-velutinous at the base. Leaves white-lanate beneath, subglabrous above; lower in a basal rosette, petiolate, lyrate or undivided; lower cauline sessile, ovate to elliptical, often lyrate, with linear-lanceolate segments; upper lyrate-dentate. Involucre c. 25 mm in diameter, ovoid-globose; bracts glabrous; appendages triangular, dark brown, mucronulate or with apical spine 2-3 mm. Florets brownish-purple, the outer as long as the inner. Achenes 4 mm, puberulent; pappus as long as achene, dirtywhite. 2/7 = 22. Rocky places. • Kikladhes. Gr.

C. armoracifolia Sibth. & Sm. , FI. Graec. Prodr. 2: 205 (1813), described from S. Greece (Peloponnisos), is like 37 but has the appendages not fimbriate; it has not been found again.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Asteraceae

Genus

Centaurea

Loc

Centaurea oliverana

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1976
1976
Loc

C. oliverana

DC. 1838: 590
1838
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