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Cirsium creticum subsp. gaillardotii

(Boiss.) P.H.Davis & Parris

Leb. Syr. Tur. Pal.

Cirsium creticum (Lam.) d’Urv. subsp. gaillardotii (Boiss.) Davis & Parris

(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, Pl. CCLXV nº 1; 1983)

  • Life-form & habit: Slender perennial with leafy stems, 20–60 cm tall; stems narrowly winged with short spines between the nodes.

  • Leaves: Lanceolate, subentire to finely denticulate, prickly and decurrent, finely tuberculate above, white-aranose beneath.

  • Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula small, ovoid, shortly pedunculate, sparsely aranose; each plant bears 1–3 heads.

  • Bracts: Involucral bracts increasing in length upward, oblong, obtuse, the uppermost with a scarious terminal appendage.

  • Corolla: Purple; limb and tube of equal length; filaments glabrous.

  • Phenology: Flowers in summer.

  • Habitat & elevation: Humid locations, including stream margins and moist woodland clearings.

  • Lebanese distribution: Mi. Jebaa, Moukhtara, Nahr Safa, Deir-el-Qamar, forest road to Qamou‘a.

  • Syrian distribution: Sud. Banias, springs of the Jordan.

  • Native range: Balkans, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine

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