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Onopordum L.

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Onopordum L., Sp. Pl. 827 (1753)
Onopordum L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
827
ICN
Onopordum L.
genus
Onopordum

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Onopordum

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Onopordum L.

Biennial herbs. Hairs multicellular or unicellular, usually cottony, woolly, or felted, sometimes short and glandular. Lvs alternate, sessile, subentire or pinnatifid or pinnatisect, dentate; lobes and teeth spine-tipped. Capitula homogamous, globose to ovoid, solitary or clustered. Involucral bracts in several series, deltoid to linear, glabrous, puberulent or tomentose; apex spinous. Receptacle flat; scales connate, enclosing bases of achenes in pits with dentate margins. Florets ☿, all tubular. Corolla glabrous or glandular, 5-lobed, reddish, purple, pink or white. Anthers subulate at apex, shortly caudate at base; filaments hairy. Style branches linear, erect, appressed. Achenes obovoid to clavate, 4-5-angled, glabrous, smooth or rugose; achene insertion basal; pappus hairs in 1 or several rows, soft to stiff, plumose or scabrid, united at base into a ring.

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Onopordum L.
Onopordum L.
Onopordum L.
Onopordum L.
Onopordum
Onopordum L.

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Onopordum L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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171040c0-17de-45d5-b3c6-47251037351a
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1 January 2000
13 August 2008
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