Centaurea transcaucasica, D. Sosn. ex Grossh.

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 : 286

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

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scientific name

Centaurea transcaucasica
status

 

165. C. transcaucasica D. Sosn. ex Grossh. View in CoL , FI. Kavk. 4: 212 (1934)

( C. sarandinakiae Illarionova ).

Biennial. Stems 40-70 cm or more, 1-4, erect or ascending, much-branched. Leaves lanate, scabrid; lower pinnatisect, with linear-lanceolate segments; middle pinnatisect; upper linear-lanceolate. Capitula 10-20, not in clusters. Involucre 10-16 mm in diameter, ovoid or ovoid-globose; appendages orbicular-obovate, usually covering the yellowish bracts, with a distinct, narrowly triangular, yellow central spot, the margin pellucid, often shining, the apex emarginate, muticous; outer bracts sometimes with soft mucro at apex. Florets purple. Achenes 4 mm; pappus as long as achene. Rocks and screes. Hills of S.E. Krym (Sudak to Planerskoé). Rs (K). (Caucasus)

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Asteraceae

Genus

Centaurea

Loc

Centaurea transcaucasica

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. transcaucasica

D. Sosn. ex Grossh. 1934: 212
1934
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