Leuzea rhapontica, (L.) J. Holub

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 : 252

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Leuzea rhapontica
status

 

2. L. rhapontica (L.) J. Holub View in CoL , op. cit. 392 (1973)

( Rhaponticum scariosum Lam. , Centaurea rhapontica L. ).

Stem up to 100 cm, lanate. Basal leaves 20-60 x 12-15 cm, acute, subcordate at base, petiolate; cauline leaves attenuate or sublyrate at base, undivided or lyrate, dentate, sessile; all leaves green, glabrous above, greyor white-tomentose beneath. Involucre up to 11 cm in diameter, globose; bracts oblong or ovate, the appendages c. 10 mm wide, orbicular, lacerate, brown. Corolla red or purple. Achenes brown; pappus barbellate, twice as long as achene, purplishbrown. 2« = 26. Subalpine and alpine meadows. • Alps. Au Ga He It Ju.

1 Involucre 5-6(-7)cm in diameter; bracts subacute; cauline leaves gradually narrowed to base, undivided, grey-tomentose beneath; stem leafless below the capitulum

(a) subsp. rhapontica 1 Involucre 7—11 cm in diameter; bracts obtuse; cauline leaves abruptly narrowed to base, undivided, lyrate or pinnatisect, distinctly white-tomentose beneath; stem leafy up to the capitulum

2 Basal leaves undivided or lyrate, with one pair of lobes at the base (b) subsp. heleniifolia 2 Basal leaves deeply pinnatisect into lanceolate, serratedentate segments (c) subsp. bicknellii

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Asteraceae

Genus

Leuzea

Loc

Leuzea rhapontica

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

L. rhapontica (L.)

J. Holub 1973: 392
1973
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