Rhaponticum
| Rhaponticum | |
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| Rhaponticum scariosum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Cynareae |
| Genus: | Rhaponticum Vaill. 1754 not 1757 nor Adans. 1763 nor Haller 1742[1] |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Rhaponticum coniferum - MHNT
Rhaponticum, is a genus of flowering plants in the thistle tribe within the sunflower family.[2][3]
Description[]
Rhaponticum species are perennial herbaceous plants with simple, rarely branched stems. The leaves are simple to pinnatifid. The inflorescence is on the apex of the stem. The fruit is an achene with a hairy pappus.[4]
Systematics[]
Species[]
The genus comprises the following species.[1][5][6][7]
- (L.) DC. - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
- Iljin - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- (Gaudich.) - Austral cornflower, native thistle - Queensland, Victoria
- (Batt.) Dobignard - Morocco
- DC. - Canary Islands
- Rhaponticum carthamoides (Willd.) Iljin - maral root - Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Russia (Altai Krai, Chita, Irkutsk)
- (L.) O.Bolòs - France, Spain
- (L.) Greuter - Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
- (Ball) Greuter - Morocco
- (Willk.) Greuter - Spain, Portugal, Morocco
- Rhaponticum heleniifolium Godr. & Gren. - Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy
- (Eren.) Kangay - Turkey
- (Boiss.) Wagenitz - Iran, Turkey
- C.Winkl. - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- Iljin - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- (Hoffmanns. & Link) Dittrich - Morocco
- C.Winkl. ex Iljin - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- Iljin - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- Lipsky - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan
- Fisch. - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Altai Krai
- (Serg.) Peshkova
- Fisch. & C.A.Mey. - Azerbaijan, Republic of Georgia, Iran, Afghanistan
- Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo - Russian knapweed, creeping knapweed, hardheads, blueweed - Central Asia; naturalized in Europe, southwest Asia, Australia, North America
- Rhaponticum scariosum Lam. - France, Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia
- (Georgi) Bobrov - Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, European Russia, Moldova, Altai Krai, Turkey, Kazakhstan
Formerly included[]
Several species are now relegated to other genera: Centaurea, Klasea, Ochrocephala, Stemmacantha, and Synurus.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2014-11-06 at archive.today
- ^ Vaillant, Sébastien. 1754. Der Konigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Paris Physische Abhandlungen 5: 177
- ^ Tropicos, Rhaponticum Vaill.
- ^ Rhaponticum. Flora of China.
- ^ Hidalgo, O., et al. (2006). Phylogeny of Rhaponticum (Asteraceae, Cardueae–Centaureinae) and related genera inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data: taxonomic and biogeographic implications. Annals of Botany 97(5), 705-14.
- ^ "Rhaponticum". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- ^ GRIN Species Records of Rhaponticum. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).
Categories:
- Asteraceae genera
- Cynareae