Centaurea carduiformis

Asteraceae

Centaurea carduiformis
subsp. orientalis

Centaurea L.
Centaurea carduiformis DC. subsp. orientalis WAGENITZ
Ömür: Çok yıllık
Yapı: ot
Hayat formu:
İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6
Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 7
Habitat: step
Minimum yükseklik: 1000
Maksimum yükseklik: 2300
Endemik: -
Element: İran-Turan
Türkiye dağılımı: D. Anadolu
Genel dağılımı: Transkafkasya, KB. İran5

C. carduiformis DC., Prodr. 6:590 (1838).
  Biennial (or more rarely perennial) with thickened taproot, stem erect, (10-)20-90 cm, usually branched only in upper part with 3-5 capitula (sometimes branched more profusely). Stem and leaves (especially below) hispid or arachnoid-tomentose. Leaves l-2-pinnatisect, larger segments l.5-8(-12) mm broad, terminal equal or only slightly larger, small segments usually present between large ones. Involucre 17-25(-30) x(15-)20-25(-30) mm, ovoid. Appendages only partly concealing basal part of phyllaries, triangular, gradually narrowed into spine, 10-30 mm (incl. spine), dark to light brown, with numerous cilia on each side ( ± ascending the spine), (l.5-)4-5(-8) mm. Flowers rose-purple or whitish (nerves usually orange). Achenes 5-6(-8) mm; pappus (6-)7-10 mm, inner row 1.5-2.5 mm.
1. Stem and leaves not hispid, arachnoid (floccose)-tomentose; appendages 4-6 mm broad at base subsp. orientalis
1. Base of stem and lower side of leaves hispid with septate hairs; appendages 2.5-3.5(-4) mm broad at base subsp. carduiformis
2. Appendages (incl. spine) usually more than 15 mm, cilia 3-5(-8) mm var. carduiformis
2. Appendages 10-15 mm, cilia 1.5-2 mm var. thrinciifolia
subsp. carduiformis.
var. thrinciifolia (DC.) Wagenitz in Willdenowia 6:496 (1972). Syn: C. thrinciifolia DC, Prodr. 6:590 (1838)! Colymbada thrinciifolia (DC.) Holub in Folia Geobot. & Phytotax. 7:316 (1972)! Alt. c. 900 m.
  Type: [Turkey B7?] in Cappadocia ad Euphratem, Aucher 3148 (holo. G-DC! iso. G! K!).
  E. Anatolia, rare. B6 Malatya: 20 km W. of Malatya, 900 m, Hub.-Mor. 9487!
  Syrian Desert. Another gathering from B6 Sivas (19 km E. of Hafik, 1300 m, Hub.-Mor. 11944) is intermediate between this variety and var. carduiformis.