Carlina corymbosa

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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 Carlina

Biennials [annuals or perennials , shrubs , or dwarf trees ], 10-80 cm. herbage spiny . Stems erect or spreading , simple to branched distally or throughout. branches ascending to spreading. Leaves basal and cauline [all cauline]; petiolate or sessile; blade margins dentate to pinnately lobed , ± spiny, faces ± tomentose or glabrate . Heads discoid , borne singly or in corymbiform arrays. Involucres hemispheric to campanulate . Phyllaries many in several series. outer ovate to lanceolate, bases appressed ; (at least outer ± leaflike) ; middle smaller, scarious , margins spiny-dentate or -lobed, apical appendages spine-tipped, inner apices spreading, membranous, white to stramineous , raylike, entire . Receptacles flat to conic, epaleaete scaly or bristly (each floret surrounded by ± connate , membranous scales dissected into linear lobes ). Florets many; corollas yellow to maroon, tubular-funnelform, lobes triangular; anther bases tailed , linear-oblong, apical appendages acute; style branches: fused portions ca. 0.5 mm, with basal nodes glabrous or minutely hairy , distally puberulent. distinct portions tapered, not or scarcely separating. Cypselae cylindric to fusiform , not ribbed , without apical rim. hairy with forked , 2-celled hairs , attachment scars basal-oblique; pappi readily falling, of many persistent bristles in 1 series, basally connate in groups of 3-10, plumose . x = 9, 10.

Species 28: introduced ; Eurasia , Mediterranean region, Macaronesia.[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,160 meters (0 to 3,806 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, IPNI, Tropicos, Euro+Med. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:29C96FB5-2A4B-4981-AFB8-1C88ACB5239C

Last scrutiny: 19-Aug-09

Similar Species

Members of the genus Carlina

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. acaulis (Carline Thistle) · C. acaulis simplex 'Bronze' (Bronze Carline Thistle) · C. vulgaris (Carline Thistle) · C. vulgaris longifolia (Chardon Penche) · C. vulgaris vulgaris (Carline Thistle)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the phaenogamous plants of Great Britain: arranged according to the natural orders: with a copious list of synonyms carefully compiled from Steudel's Nomenclator botanicus, Smith's English flora, Hookers's British flora, Lindley's Synopsis, by Henry Ibbotson. London: H. Bailliere, 1848. url p. 67.
• Anales de la Sociedad Espaola de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url , p. 155, p. 17, p. 17, p. 174, p. 174, p. 228, p. 234, p. 272, p. 377, p. 38, p. 383, p. 438, p. 447, p. 47, p. 88, p. 88.
• British journal of entomology and natural history. [London]: British Entomological and Natural History Society, 1988- url , p. 65.
• Enquiry into plants and minor works on odoùrs and weather signs, London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916. url p. 483, p. 488.
• Flora calpensis; contributions to the botany and topography of Gibraltar, and its neighbourhood. By E. F. Kelaart. London, J. van Voorst, 1846. url p. 119, p. 180.
• Florula Mortolensis. An enumeration of the plants growing wild at La Mortola. Ventimiglia, Billi, 1905. url .
• Flowering plants of the Riviera: a sescriptive account of 1800 of the more interesting species / by H. Stuart Thompson; with an introduction on Riviera vegetation by A. G. Tansley London; New York: Longmans, Green, 1914. url p. 138, p. x.
• Humboldt; Monatsschrift fr die gesamten Naturwissenschaften. Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1882-90. url p. 135, p. 438.
• Journal of botany, British and foreign. 1914 London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url p. 59.
• Journal of botany: being a second series of the Botanical miscellany. 1 1834 London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman; Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1834-1842. url p. 127, p. 223.
• Marcellia. New York [etc.]Pergamon Press [etc.] url p. 25.
• Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 9 1900 Durham, N.C.: Published for the Club by the Seeman Printery, 1889- url p. 267.
• Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 1 1900 - 19 Edinburgh: H. M. Stationery Off. url p. 27.
• Plant-geography upon a physiological basis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903. url p. 523.
• Proceedings and transactions of the British Entomological and Natural History Society. London, British Entomological and Natural History Society. url , p. 80.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 190, p. 324.
• The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. s.l., s.n. url p. 32.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 65.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 776.
• The Journal of entomology: descriptive and geographical. London: Taylor and Francis, 1860-1866. url p. 15, p. 15.
• The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany. London, John van Voorst, 1844-56. url p. 506, p. 509.
• The book of the dairy: a manual of the science and practice of dairy work / translated from the German of W. Fleischmann by C. M. Aikman and R. Patrick Wright. London: Blackie[1896] url p. 208, p. 208.
• The survey of western Palestine. The fauna and flora of Palestine, by H. B. Tristram. London, The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1884. url p. 334.
• Meusel, H. and A. Kästner. 1990. Lebensgeschichte der Gold- und Silberdisteln. Monographie der Mediterran-Mitteleuropaischen Compositen-Gattung Carlina Band I. Merkmalsspektren und Lebensraume der Gattung. Denkschr. Öesterr. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 127: 1294.
• Meusel, H., A. Kästner, and E. Vitek. 1996. The evolution of CarlinaA hypothesis based on ecogeography. In: D. J. N. Hind et al., eds. 1996. Proceedings of the International Compositae Conference, Kew, 1994. 2 vols. Kew. Vol. 1, pp. 723737.

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 27, 2008:

• Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Herbarium Willing
• Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien, Observations du Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien.
• GBIF-Spain, Dirección General de Investigación, Desarrollo Tecnológico e Innovación de la Junta de Extremadura(DGIDTI): HSS
• GBIF-Spain, Dpto de Botánica, Ecología y Fisiología Vegetal
• .Facultad de Ciencias.Universidad de Córdoba
• GBIF-Spain, Hortus Botanicus Sollerensis Herbarium
• GBIF-Spain, Jardín Botánico de Córdoba: Herbarium COA
• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Extremadura, UNEX
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas: FCO
• GBIF-Sweden, Internation Botanical Collections
• Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum - Herbarium GJO, Herbarium GJO
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Lund Botanical Museum

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5828655
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-7599
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13758497
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:189241-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 724527

Footnotes

1. David J. Keil "Carlina". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 28, 83, 84. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 574.390 meters (1,884.482 feet), Standard Deviation = 656.160 based on 155 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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