| Asteraceae |
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Cousinia urumiensis BORNM. |
Cousinia urumiensis BORNM. |
 Cousinia urumiensis BORNM |
 Cousinia urumiensis BORNM |
Cousinia CASS. |
| C. urumiensis Bornm. in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 60:135 (1910). Syn: C. azerbaijanensis Parsa in Kew Bull. 1948:202 (1949). Map 31, p. 339. Perennial, 15-25 cm, 1-6-headed, with few branches. Stems slender, terete, arachnoid-woolly, ± soon glabrescent. Leaves loosely arachnoid-woolly, glabrescent above, densely white-tomentose below, finely prickly; basal leaves lanceolate, 5-15 x 2-4 cm, pinnatipartite, with numerous pairs of linear or linear-lanceolate segments 1-3 mm broad; stem leaves similar but smaller, with less numerous segments, upper ones pinnately lobed, with 2-4 pairs of lanceolate or linear segments, stem leaves always sessile, amplexicaul at base, not decurrent. Capitula 10-25-flowered. Involucre ovoid, 1.2-2 cm broad incl. spines; phyllaries85-95, loosely arachnoid, soon glabrescent, lower and median ones acuminate from an oblong 2 mm adpressed base into a linear-subulate reflexed 4-8 mm upper part. Bristles of receptacle smooth. Flowers yellow, 10-11 mm. Achenes brown, oblong-obovate, wrinkled, longitudinally striped, finely marginate and denticulate at apex. Fl. 7. Steppe, c. 1920 m. Syntypes: [N.W. Iran] Urumia, ad Sameschli in lapidosis, 7 vii 1884, Knapp; inter Diliman et Urumia, ad pedem m. Karnaru, in apricis, 10 vi 1884, Knapp; ad Morantschuk (inter Koi et Diliman), in lapidosis, 7 vi 1884, Knapp. S.E. Anatolia. B9 Van: 40 km from Van to Canik, nr Şahgeldi, 1920 m, Demiriz 3493! N.W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element. |