Amberboa

Amberboa
Amberboa moschata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Cardueae
Genus: Amberboa
(Pers.) Less.
Type species
Amberboa moschata
(Linnaeus) A. P. de Candolle
Synonyms
  • Chryseis Cass.
  • Amblyopogon (DC.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex DC.
  • Centaurea subg. Amberboa Pers.
  • Stephanochilus Coss. & Durieu ex Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Amberboa Vaill.

Amberboa is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, described as a genus in 1832.[1][2]

The genus is native to central and southwestern Asia.[3][4]

Species[5]
  1. Amberboa amberboi (L.) Tzvelev - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Armenia
  2. Amberboa bucharica Iljin - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran
  3. Amberboa glauca (Puschk. ex Willd.) Muss.Puschk. ex Grossh. - Caucasus, Iran, Turkey
  4. Amberboa moschata (L.) DC. - Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Iraq
  5. Amberboa nana (Boiss.) Iljin - Altai, Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Kazakhstan
  6. Amberboa odorata (Cass.) DC.
  7. Amberboa ramosa (Roxb.) Jafri - India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
  8. Amberboa sosnovskyi Iljin - Caucasus, Iran
  9. Amberboa turanica Iljin - Russia, Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, Xinjiang, Pakistan, Afghanistan

References

  1. ↑ Lessing, Christian Friedrich. 1832. Synopsis generum compositarum earumque dispositionis novae tentamen, monographis multarum Capensium interjectis 8 in Latin
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Amberboa (Pers.) Less.
  3. ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  4. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 186 珀菊属 po ju shu Amberboa Vaillant, Königl. Akad. Wiss. Paris. 5: 182. 1754.
  5. ↑ The Plant List search for Amberboa

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