LAMYROPSIS CYNAROIDES

Family:- COMPOSITAE

Common Names:- None

Synonyms:- Carduus cynara, Carduus cynaroides, Chamaepeuce cynaroides

Cirsium cynaroides, Cnicus cynaroides, Lamyra cynaroides, Pternix

cynarioides

Meaning:- Lamyropsis Meaning unknown.

Cynaroides (L) Resembling cynara.

General description:- Perennial.

Stem:-

1) 20-50cm., white-arachnoid-lanate.

Leaves:-

1) Broadly oblong, pinnatifid to pinnatisect, villous on the veins above, white-

tomentose beneath; segments 3- to 5-lobed, the lobes triangular, with spines

1·5-4 mm.

Flowers:-

1) Capitula pedunculate, solitary or few in clusters.

2) Involucre 27-35 x 25-30 mm.

3) Bracts ,with a long, patent to deflexed, subulate apex bearing a stout spine.

4) Corolla 26-34 mm, purplish-pink.

Fruit:-

1) Achenes 5-6 mm; pappus 17-21 mm.

Key features:-

1) Involucre 27-35 x 25-30 mm.

2) Bracts with long, patent to deflexed apex.

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Habitat:- Rocky and gravelly slopes with open dry shrubby vegetation and open

coniferous woodland, roadsides. 0-1100(-1500) m.

Distribution:- scattered in W Peloponnisos, W mainland and Ionia Islands. -

extending to SW Anatolia. Widespread and common on Crete.

Flowering time:- Mar-June.

Photos by:- Steve Lenton