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9464.000 Silybum - Milk thistle
Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M. (1989) Flora of the British Isles. 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (2000) Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera Strelitzia 10
Description of the genus
Annual or biennial thistles. Leaves alternate or borne in a basal rosette, white-veined or variegated above, sinuately lobed or pinnatifid, with a spiny margin. Capitula discoid, solitary, terminal, erect or nodding. Phyllaries of many spiny bracts. Receptacle hairy, not pitted. Florets all tubular and bisexual, red-purple; stamens united below into a tube. Achenes obovoid, flattened, glabrous, crowned with a membranous border. Pappus of many rows of rough hairs, united below into a basal ring. Worldwide: 2 species in the Mediterranean region, Central Europe and the Middle East; naturalised elsewhere. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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