Scorzonera crocifolia Sibth. & Sm.
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Sibth. & Sm. In: Fl. Graec. Prodr. 2: 123. (1813).













Classification
- kingdom
- Plantae
- phylum
- Tracheophyta
- class
- Magnoliopsida
- order
- Asterales
- family
- Asteraceae
- genus
- Pseudopodospermum
- species
- Pseudopodospermum crocifolium
Description
Perennial 15-45 cm, subglabrous or arachnoid-lanate at base of stems and leaves; rootstock vertical, cylindrical, stout, not fibrous at apex. Stems solitary or few, slender, rigid, usually with 1-3 branches near the base, erect, sparsely leafy below. Basal leaves 7-25 x 0.1-0.3(-0.6) cm, grass-like, rigid, densely crowded, with prominent erect sheaths. Involucre 15-30 mm; outer bracts 1/4 – 1/3 as long as inner. Ligules 1 1/4-2 times as long as bracts, yellow, often reddish outside. Achenes 15-20 mm, cylindrical, the outer with scabrid to squamate ribs, the inner with smooth ribs. Pappus-hairs about as long as achene, plumose, dirty white. 2n= 14.\r\rfrom: Chater, A. O. 1976: 161. Scorzonera L. – Pp. 317-322 in: Tutin, G. & al. (ed.), Flora Europaea 4. – Cambridge.
Name
- Homonyms
- Scorzonera crocifolia Sibth. & Sm.
Bibliographic References
- Fl. Graec. 8