Mantisalca | |
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A dagger flower, Mantisalca salmantica, in Albatera Alicante, Spain. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Subfamily: | Carduoideae |
Tribe: | Cardueae |
Subtribe: | Centaureinae |
Genus: |
Mantisalca Cass. [1] [2] |
Type species | |
Mantisalca salmantica | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Mantisalca is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. [3] [4]
Annual or biennial herbs growing between 50 cm to 1.3 metres in size. [5] [6] Herbage is not spiny. [6]
The stems are erect, strongly branched, longitudinal parallel lines ( striate) with wings on stem absent. [5]
Leaves grow around the base ( basal) and along the stem ( cauline). [6] Leaves are without spines. Basal leaves dissected to the midrib with the leave segments merging (confluent) at the midrib ( pinnatisect). [5] Stem leaves sparse, much reduced, very narrow in length with parallel sides ( linear) and toothed, with the teeth pointing towards the leaf tip ( serrate). [5]
Flower heads are solitary with ray-florets absent and receptacle scales present. [7] Involcural bracts are ovoid to spheric in shape, 10 to 15 mm in diameter. [6] The bracts are in several series, up to eight in number, ending in a short deciduous spines or with a short sharp point ( mucronate). [7] [6] [5]
Mantisalca occurs primarily in northern Africa, southern Europe and Turkey. One species, Mantisalca salmantica, is naturalised in Australia. [5]
Mantisalca is the anagram of the type species epithet salmantica. [6]
Selected hybrids include:
Mantisalca | |
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A dagger flower, Mantisalca salmantica, in Albatera Alicante, Spain. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Subfamily: | Carduoideae |
Tribe: | Cardueae |
Subtribe: | Centaureinae |
Genus: |
Mantisalca Cass. [1] [2] |
Type species | |
Mantisalca salmantica | |
Synonyms [1] | |
|
Mantisalca is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. [3] [4]
Annual or biennial herbs growing between 50 cm to 1.3 metres in size. [5] [6] Herbage is not spiny. [6]
The stems are erect, strongly branched, longitudinal parallel lines ( striate) with wings on stem absent. [5]
Leaves grow around the base ( basal) and along the stem ( cauline). [6] Leaves are without spines. Basal leaves dissected to the midrib with the leave segments merging (confluent) at the midrib ( pinnatisect). [5] Stem leaves sparse, much reduced, very narrow in length with parallel sides ( linear) and toothed, with the teeth pointing towards the leaf tip ( serrate). [5]
Flower heads are solitary with ray-florets absent and receptacle scales present. [7] Involcural bracts are ovoid to spheric in shape, 10 to 15 mm in diameter. [6] The bracts are in several series, up to eight in number, ending in a short deciduous spines or with a short sharp point ( mucronate). [7] [6] [5]
Mantisalca occurs primarily in northern Africa, southern Europe and Turkey. One species, Mantisalca salmantica, is naturalised in Australia. [5]
Mantisalca is the anagram of the type species epithet salmantica. [6]
Selected hybrids include: