Asteraceae |
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Cirsium simplex C. A. MEYER subsp. simplex C. A. MEYER |
Cirsium simplex C. A. MEYER subsp. simplex C. A. MEYER |
Cirsium MILLER |
C. simplex C.A.Meyer, Verz. Pfl. Cauc. 70 (1831). Rhizomatous perennial, 25-50 cm. Stems unbranched, unwinged, green or purplish, glabrous or shortly arachnoid (hairs multicellular), bearing l-5(-10) capitula in a conferted terminal head. Leaves glabrous, or arachnoid on the main vein below, usually herbaceous; basal leaves usually oblanceolate, entire to shallowly sinuate-lobed to ⅓(-½), rarely pinnatifid, margin pectinate with long and short spines, spines usually weak but sometimes ± stout, 0.5-10 mm, lamina tapering into a short winged spinulose petiole; median cauline leaves oblong to lanceolate 10-15 x 1-2 (-4) cm, sessile and shortly semi-amplexicaul, margined as in basal leaves; upper leaves linear-lanceolate, pectinate-spined, shorter to longer than capitula. Involucres hemisphericai-obconical, 20-25(-28) mm. Phyllaries 5-6-seriate, median lanceolate, thin, greenish, with a darkened linear 4-6 mm vitta, attenuate into an erect, usually weak, 2-3(-4) mm spine. Corollas 18-20 mm, dirty white or purple; anther tube mauve. Achenes 4-4.5 mm. Pappus 15-19 mm. Fl. 7-8. By streams and flushes, 2000-2900 m. 1. Basal and median cauline leaves entire to lobed to ⅓, lobes (when present) obscure to triangular and separated by U-shaped sinuses; spines of involucral leaves up to 6 mm, usually slender; flowers whitish or purple 2. Flowers purple; leaves entire (except for pectinate margin) subsp. simplex 2. Flowers dirty white; leaves simple to lobed to ⅓(-½) subsp. armenum 1. Basal and median cauline leaves pinnatifid to ¾, lobes lanceolate and lobulate, separated by wide square sinuses; flowers dirty white subsp. satdaghense subsp. simplex. Described from the western Caucasus (LE). N.E. Anatolia, local. A8 Çoruh: d. Artvin, above Schloban, Woronow 5530; Sachra to Marsuret, Vvedensky, Woronow 5320; Mt. Tikma, Sosnovsky; Arsian to Mansuret (ail records from Petrak in Monit. Jard. Bot. Tiflis 24:12, 1912). Caucasia. Euxine (mt.) element. |