CARTHAMUS nitidus Boiss. [family COMPOSITAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje (Acanthospermum, Ageratum, Aspilia, Atractylis, Blainvillea, Blumea, Carthamus, Cirsium, Conyza, Crepis, Dichrocephala, Distephanus, Echinops, Eclipta, Erlangera, Felicia, Flaveria, Geigera, Gerbera, Grangea, Gutenbergia, Helichrysum, Iphiona, Iphionopsis, Jurinea, Laggera, Litogyne, Osteospermum, Pegolettia, Pentanema, Pseudoblepharispermum, Pseudognaphalium, Psiadia, Pulicaria, Reichardia, Sclerocarpus, Sonchus, Sphaeranthus, Tagetes, Tarchonanthus, Tridax, Vernonia, Volutaria, Xanthium), T. Eriksson (Athroisma, Blepharispermum), N. Kilian (Launaea), S. King-Jones & M. Thulin (Pluchea), Mesfin Tadesse (Bidens), S. Ortiz & J. Rodríguez-Oubiña (Dicoma), and M. Thulin (Cineraria, Doellia, Emilia, Erythroseris, Euryops, Galinsoga, Gynura, Helianthus, Kleinia, Lactuca, Pentzia, Senecio, Solanecio, Verbesina, Zinnia). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CARTHAMUS nitidus Boiss. [family COMPOSITAE], (1875). Fig. 320.
Information
Annual herb to 40 cm high; stem white, glabrous. Leaves of young plants in a rosette, lyrate; later stem leaves pinnatifid with 3–4 pairs of lobes, 2–5´1–3 cm, sessile, the lobes spiny-attenuate, apex spiny-attenuate, glabrous, slightly glandular. Capitula solitary on terminal and side branches; involucre 2.6–4 cm long; outer phyllaries resembling the leaves; inner phyllaries ovate with triangular, pectinate-dentate appendage. Florets pink, ± 2 cm long, of which lobes 4–5 mm. Achenes obovoid, 4.5 mm long; pappus of violet flattened bristles 1–7 mm long, the outer and inner shortest.
Range
N2
Altitude range
c. 1080 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Newbould 1001.
Distribution (external)
Syria
Israel
Jordan
N Sudan
Notes
The Somali specimen, which was not mentioned in the monograph by Hanelt (1963), represents a considerable range extension. It was recorded as C. persicus Desf. ex Willd. in Cuf. Enum.: 1177 (1967).
CARTHAMUS nitidus Boiss. [family COMPOSITAE]
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