- Family:
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
- Genus:
- Carthamus L.
Carthamus nitidus Boiss.

[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual herb to 40 cm high; stem white, glabrous
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves of young plants in a rosette, lyrate; later stem leaves pinnatifid with 3–4 pairs of lobes, 2–5´1–3 cm, sessile, the lobes spiny-attenuate, apex spiny-attenuate, glabrous, slightly glandular
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Capitula solitary on terminal and side branches; involucre 2.6–4 cm long; outer phyllaries resembling the leaves; inner phyllaries ovate with triangular, pectinate-dentate appendage
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Florets pink, ± 2 cm long, of which lobes 4–5 mm
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes obovoid, 4.5 mm long; pappus of violet flattened bristles 1–7 mm long, the outer and inner shortest.
- Distribution
- N2; Syria, Israel, Jordan, N Sudan
- Ecology
- Altitude range c. 1080 m.
- Note
- The Somali specimen, which was not mentioned in the monograph by Hanelt (1963), represents a considerable range extension. It was recorded as C. persicus Desf. ex Willd. in Cuf. Enum.: 1177 (1967).
Native to:
Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan
Carthamus nitidus Boiss. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Fl. Orient. 3: 708 (1875)
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- (2021). https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.509.1.1 epublication.
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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