9476.000 Centaurea L.

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate. Capitula solitary, heterogamous; florets tubular; outer neuter; inner bisexual. Phyllaries many-seriate, imbricate, with a pectinate or spiny, apical appendage. Receptacle densely setose; setae twisted. Achenes ± laterally flattened, glabrous when mature. Pappus many-seriate, of persistent, unequal, barbellate, scale-like setae.

Worldwide: c. 500 species, Europe, Mediterranean, the Middle East and Eurasia with a few species in tropical Africa, North America and Australia

Zimbabwe: 3 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
cyanus L.	E	Description, Image
melitensis L.	E	Description, Image
praecox Oliv. & Hiern	N,C	Description, Image

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Flora of Burundi: Centaurea
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Flora of Malawi: Centaurea
Flora of Mozambique: Centaurea
Flora of Zambia: Centaurea
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Centaurea

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