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Silybum Adans.

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Silybum Adans., Fam. Pl. 2, 116, 605 (1763)
Silybum Adans.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Adans.
Adans.
1763
116, 605
ICN
Silybum Adans.
genus
Silybum

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Silybum

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Silybum Adans.

Annual or biennial herbs. Hairs short and mealy, or long, fine and cobwebby. Lvs alternate, sessile, pinnatifid, sinuate, dentate, auriculate to amplexicaul; lobes and teeth spine-tipped. Capitula homogamous, globose to ovoid, solitary. Involucral bracts in several series, ovate to linear, glabrescent, with sparse cobwebby hairs on margins; margins and apex spinous. Receptacle flat, with dense hairs; scales 0. Florets ☿, all tubular. Corolla glabrous, 5-lobed, reddish purple. Anthers acute at apex, sagittate at base; filaments hairy. Style branches linear, erect, appressed. Achenes obovoid, smooth; achene insertion obliquely basal; pappus hairs in several rows, united at base into a ring; outer hairs stiff, scabrid; innermost hairs short, very fine.

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Silybum Adans.
Silybum Adans.
Silybum Adans.
Silybum Adans.
Silybum
Silybum Adans.

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Silybum Adans.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District

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6a31de9f-44ef-4ed5-ae54-23ec1318f77f
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1 January 2000
15 August 2008
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