Eryngium pseudothorifolium

Eryngium pseudothorifolium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Genus: Eryngium
Species:
E. pseudothorifolium
Binomial name
Eryngium pseudothorifolium
Contandr. & Quézel [1]

Eryngium pseudothorifolium, in Turkish yalancı boğadikeni [2], is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae endemic to SW Turkey.

Description and Habitat

An Eryngo with single upright stem based with roundish, shield-like, saw-toothed greyish leaves and some smaller ones up the stem, flowering with 1-3 yellowy-green flower heads. Photos.

It naturally grows on marly soil, and apart from Eryngium thorifolium lacks close allies [3].

It may be confused with Eryngium thorifolium [4], whose leaves are rounder-topped and much more indented at the base, with many more flower heads on some branches, and which grows on rocky serpentine soil; and also with species of Pimpinella such as Pimpinella flabellifolia.

Distribution

It is native to Turkey only [1], in the far south-west [2].

References

  1. ^ a b Plants of the World Online (with map)
  2. ^ a b "bizimbitkiler.org (with map)".
  3. ^ PH Davis; RR Mill; Kit Tan (1988). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 10 (Supplement).
  4. ^ PH Davis (1972). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 4.