Rhaponticum

Rhaponticum
Rhaponticum scariosum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Cynareae [1]
Genus: Rhaponticum
Vaill. 1754 not Ludw. 1757 nor Adans. 1763 nor Haller 1742[1]
Synonyms[1]
Rhaponticum coniferun - MHNT

Rhaponticum is a genus of 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]

Distribution

The genus is native to North Africa, Asia, and Europe.[4]

Species[1][5][6][7]
  1. Rhaponticum acaule (L.) DC. - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
  2. Rhaponticum aulieatense Iljin - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
  3. Rhaponticum australe (Gaudich.) - Austral cornflower, native thistle - Queensland, Victoria
  4. Rhaponticum berardioides (Batt.) Dobignard - Morocco
  5. Rhaponticum canariense DC. - Canary Islands
  6. Rhaponticum carthamoides (Willd.) Iljin - maral root - Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Russia (Altai Krai, Chita, Irkutsk)
  7. Rhaponticum centauroides (L.) O.Bolòs - France, Spain
  8. Rhaponticum coniferum (L.) Greuter - Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
  9. Rhaponticum cossonianum (Ball) Greuter - Morocco
  10. Rhaponticum exaltatum (Willk.) Greuter - Spain, Portugal, Morocco
  11. Rhaponticum heleniifolium Godr. & Gren. - Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy
  12. Rhaponticum insigne (Boiss.) Wagenitz - Iran, Turkey
  13. Rhaponticum integrifolium C.Winkl. - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
  14. Rhapontikum karatavicum Iljin - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
  15. Rhaponticum longifolium (Hoffmanns. & Link) Dittrich - Morocco
  16. Rhaponticum lyratum C.Winkl. ex Iljin - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
  17. Rhaponticum namanganicum Iljin - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
  18. Rhaponticum nanum Lipsky - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan
  19. Rhaponticum nitidum Fisch. - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Altai Krai
  20. Rhaponticum orientale (Serg.) Peshkova
  21. Rhaponticum pulchrum Fisch. & C.A.Mey. - Azerbaijan, Republic of Georgia, Iran, Afghanistan
  22. Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo - Russian knapweed, creeping knapweed, hardheads, blueweed - Central Asia; naturalized in Europe, southwest Asia, Australia, North America
  23. Rhaponticum scariosum Lam. - France, Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia
  24. Rhaponticum serratuloides (Georgi) Bobrov - Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, European Russia, Moldova, Altai Krai, Turkey, Kazakhstan
formerly included[1]

several species now relegated to other genera: Centaurea Klasea Ochrocephala Stemmacantha Synurus

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. ↑ Vaillant, Sébastien. 1754. Der Konigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Paris Physische Abhandlungen 5: 177
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Rhaponticum Vaill.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rhaponticum. Flora of China.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Rhaponticum at the National Center for Biotechnology Information
  7. ↑ GRIN Species Records of Rhaponticum. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).