- Family:
- Caprifoliaceae Juss.
Dipsacus L.

[FTEA]
Dipsacaceae, D. M. Napper. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1968
- Morphology General Habit
- Erect perennial herbs with aculeate, or rarely smooth, stems
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves pinnatipartite or entire, sometimes the stem-leaves connate at the base
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences terminal or terminal and lateral Heads involucrate with 1 or 2 rows of foliaceous often spine-tipped bracts of variable length Involucel with or without a narrow cupular limb and developing 8 longitudinal furrows
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Bracts of the receptacle acute, chartaceous and spine-tipped, usually shorter than the involucral bracts
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx cupular, small, undulate or minutely toothed, usually pubescent or pilose
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla 4-fid, unequally lobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 4, exserted
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Stigma
- Stigma entire, rarely shortly bifid.
[FIQ]
Ghazanfar, S. A. & Edmondson, J. R (Eds). (2014) Flora of Iraq, Volume 5 Part 2: Lythraceae to Campanulaceae.
- Morphology General Habit
- Stout, erect biennial herbs usually with spiny or prickly stems
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence usually large, oblong-ovate or rarely globose
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Involucral bracteoles chaffy, involucel 4-angled, grooved, truncate at apex with an almost obsolete denticulate margins
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx cup-shaped
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla 4-fid.
- Note
- Dipsacus (from Gr. διψα, dipsa, thirst).
Native to:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Assam, Austria, Baleares, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cameroon, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krym, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Manchuria, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia, Zaïre
Extinct in:
Palestine
Introduced into:
Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Bolivia, British Columbia, California, Canary Is., Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Ecuador, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kentucky, Madeira, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Québec, Rhode I., South Dakota, Sweden, Tennessee, Texas, Uruguay, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
- Dipsacus asper Wall. ex DC.
- Dipsacus atratus Hook.f. & Thomson ex C.B.Clarke
- Dipsacus atropurpureus C.Y.Cheng & Z.T.Yin
- Dipsacus azureus Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Dipsacus cephalarioides V.A.Matthews & Kupicha
- Dipsacus chinensis Batalin
- Dipsacus comosus Hoffmanns. & Link
- Dipsacus ferox Loisel.
- Dipsacus fullonum L.
- Dipsacus gmelinii M.Bieb.
- Dipsacus inermis Wall.
- Dipsacus japonicus Miq.
- Dipsacus laciniatus L.
- Dipsacus leschenaultii Coult. ex DC.
- Dipsacus narcisseanus Lawalrée
- Dipsacus pilosus L.
- Dipsacus pinnatifidus Steud. ex A.Rich.
- Dipsacus × pseudosylvestris Schur
- Dipsacus sativus (L.) Honck.
- Dipsacus strigosus Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
- Dipsacus valsecchii Camarda
- Dipsacus walkeri Arn.
Dipsacus L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 97 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 3: 249.
Flora of Iraq
- Linnaeus, Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 43 (1754)
- Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 97 (1753);
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 43 (1754)
- Sp. Pl: 97 (1753)
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Flora of Iraq
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Neotropikey
Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
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