Amberboa (Persoon) Lessing (Q3048)

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Amberboa is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cardueae
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Amberboa (Persoon) Lessing
Amberboa is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cardueae

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    Amberboa (Persoon) Lessing
    Amberboa
    (Persoon) Lessing
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Mediterranean region to c Asia
    herbage not prickly, glabrate.
    Stems erect, usually branched from near bases.
    petiolate (basal and proximal cauline) or sessile (distal cauline);
    blade margins dentate or ± lobed (basal) or entire to lobed (cauline).
    Heads ± radiant, borne singly.
    (Peduncles slender.) Involucres ovoid, 12–16 mm diam.
    Phyllaries many in several series, bases appressed, margins scarious, apices obtuse, inner with oblong, scarious appendages, these entire or spiny.
    Receptacles flat, epaleate, bearing setiform scales (“flattened bristles”).
    outer sterile, corollas expanded, raylike, bilateral, 5–many-lobed;
    inner fertile, corollas actinomorphic;
    anther bases tailed, apical appendages oblong;
    styles branches: fused portions with basal nodes minutely hairy, distinct portions minute.
    Cypselae oblong, compressed, (apices denticulate), faces ribbed, wrinkled, with long, ascending hairs, basal attachment scars lateral, surrounded by whitish, swollen rims;
    pappi persistent, of many scales in several series, distinct, narrow [rarely 0].