Amberboa bucharica

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Amberboa

Annuals or biennials, 20-70 cm; herbage not prickly, glabrate . Stems erect . usually branched from near bases . Leaves basal and cauline (distal smaller) ; petiolate (basal and proximal cauline) or sessile (distal cauline) ; blade margins dentate or ± lobed (basal) or entire to lobed (cauline). Heads ± radiant, borne singly. ( Peduncles slender. ) Involucres ovoid , 12-16 mm diam. Phyllaries many in several series, bases appressed , margins scarious , apices obtuse , inner with oblong , scarious appendages, these entire or spiny . Receptacles flat, epaleate, bearing setiform scales ("flattened bristles"). Florets many; corollas white to pink, purple, or yellow; outer sterile , corollas expanded, raylike, bilateral , 5-many-lobed; inner fertile , corollas actinomorphic ; anther bases tailed , apical appendages oblong; styles branches: fused portions with basal nodes minutely hairy , distinct portions minute . Cypselae oblong, compressed , (apices denticulate), faces ribbed , wrinkled, with long, ascending hairs , basal attachment scars lateral , surrounded by whitish, swollen rims ) ; pappi persistent , of many scales in several series, distinct, narrow [rarely 0]. x = 16.

Species 6: introduced ; Mediterranean region to c Asia.

Amberboa has often been included within Centaurea, from which it differs by cypselae each with a denticulate apex and a conspicuous rim around the basal scar. The chromosome base number x = 16 is higher than that in most species of Centaurea in a strict sense. Molecular phylogenetic studies of the relationships of Cynareae genera (A. Susanna et al. 1995) place Amberboa as sister to the remaining genera of the Centaureinae.[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, IPNI, Tropicos. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:6139910E-B589-463B-9CF6-0F95B9FBC187

Last scrutiny: 10-Aug-09

Similar Species

Members of the genus Amberboa

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. moschata (Sweet Sultan) · A. moschata sosnovskyi (Sweet-Sultan)

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Further Reading

• Gabrielian, E. and C. E. Jarvis. 1996. Amberboa moschata, A. glauca, and A. amberboi (Asteraceae: Cardueae). A note on their taxonomy and typification of their names. Taxon 45: 213-215. 1996.
• Iljin, M. M. 1932. A critical survey of the genus Amberboa Less. Izv. Bot. Sada Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 30: 101-116.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9137000
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-25430
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 175981-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2146559

Footnotes

1. David J. Keil "Amberboa". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 67, 84, 172. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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