Cancrinia

Cancrinia
Cancrinia discoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Anthemideae
Genus: Cancrinia
Kar. & Kir.
Type species
Cancrinia chrysocephala
Kar. & Kir.

Cancrinia is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae.[1][2] They are native to central Asia, where they are distributed in China, Mongolia, and Russia.[3]

These are compact, woolly-haired perennial herbs and subshrubs. The leaves are alternately arranged or clustered, sometimes densely. Flower heads are solitary at the tips of the stems or arranged in inflorescences. The hemispherical or cup-shaped head is lined with 3 or 4 rows of phyllaries that sometimes have dark margins. It contains tubular yellow disc florets. The fruit is an achene tipped with lance-shaped scales like a pappus.[3]

C. discoidea is used as a medicinal remedy for inflammation and other conditions.[4]

Species[5][6][3][4]
  1. Cancrinia angrenica - Tajikistan
  2. Cancrinia chrysocephala - Altay, Kazakhstan, Xinjiang
  3. Cancrinia discoidea - Altay, Irkutsk, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tibet, Gansu, Xingiang, Mongolia
  4. Cancrinia karataviensis - Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
  5. Cancrinia krasnoborovii - Siberia
  6. Cancrinia lasiocarpa - Gansu, Mongolia, Ningxia
  7. Cancrinia litwinowii - Xinjiang
  8. Cancrinia maximowiczi - Gansu, Xingiang, Mongolia, Qinghai
  9. Cancrinia pamirica - Tajikistan
  10. Cancrinia rupestris - Turkmenistan
  11. Cancrinia tianschanica - Altay, Kazakhstan, Xinjiang, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
  12. Cancrinia tripinnatifida - West Himalaya

References

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  1. ↑ Karelin, Grigorij Silyč & Kirilov, Ivan Petrovich. 1842. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 15: 124-125 in Latin
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Cancrinia Kar. & Kir.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Cancrinia. Flora of China 小甘菊属 xiao gan ju shu .
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Su, J., et al. (2011). Evaluation of the in vivo anti-inflammatory activity of a flavone glycoside from Cancrinia discoidea (Ledeb.) Poljak. EXCLI Journal 10, 110-16.
  5. ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  6. ↑ Cancrinia. The Plant List.