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Cirsium Mill.

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Cirsium Mill., Gard. Dict. Abr. (ed. 4) , 334 (1754)
Cirsium Mill.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Mill.
Mill.
1754
334
ICN
Cirsium Mill.
genus
Cirsium

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Cirsium

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Cirsium Mill.

Biennial or perennial herbs, rarely annual. Stems winged or not. Hairs bristly, or soft and multicellular, or cobwebby. Lvs alternate, sessile, entire or pinnatifid or pinnatisect, dentate; lobes and teeth spine-tipped. Capitula homogamous, cylindric, ovoid or globose, solitary or in corymbs or clusters. Involucral bracts in several series, deltoid, lanceolate or linear; hairs cobwebby or 0; outer bracts usually spine-tipped, often spreading. Receptacle flat; scales numerous, setaceous. Florets ☿ or unisexual, all tubular. Corolla glabrous, 5-lobed, usually purple, sometimes white or yellow. Anthers acute at apex, with basal appendages 0.5-1.5 mm long; filaments ciliate. Style branches linear, erect, appressed. Achenes obovoid, weakly flattened, glabrous, smooth; achene insertion basal; pappus hairs in several rows, soft, silvery, plumose, united at base into a ring.

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Cirsium Mill.
Cirsium Mill.
Cirsium Mill.
Cirsium Mill.
Cirsium
Cirsium Mill.

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Cirsium Mill.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Cirsium Mill.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Cirsium Mill.
United Kingdom

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1 January 2000
13 August 2008
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