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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Asteraceae
Crupina

Citation: DC., Ann. Mus. Paris 16:157 (1810).

Derivation: Apparently the Latinised form of a Dutch or Flemish vernacular name.

Synonymy: Centaurea L. section Crupina Pers., Syn. Pl. 2:488 (1807). 3 species in the Mediterranean region and south-western Asia.

Common name: None

Description:
Slender annual herbs; stem erect, terete; leaves basal and cauline, alternate, dentate to pinnatisect, without spines.

Capitula terminal, solitary or in corymbs, heterogamous; involucres cylindrical to ovoid; bracts herbaceous with scarious margins, imbricate in several unequal series; receptacle with linear scales; outer florets tubular, sterile, without stamens or style; inner florets tubular, bisexual, fertile, 5-merous; anthers sagittate at the base with short acute apical appendages; style branches obtuse, diverging at the apex only, without sterile appendages.

Achene truncate at the apex, shortly tapered at the base, hardly compressed; pappus 2-seriate, the outer row of unequal barbellate bristles, the inner of short acute scales.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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