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Asteraceae

Volutaria

Volutaria muricata (L.) Maire

First published in É.Jahandiez & al., Cat. Pl. Maroc 3: 817 (1934)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is S. Spain, Morocco to Algeria. It grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Distribution
Synonyms
Publications
Other data

Native to:

Algeria, Morocco, Spain

Introduced into:

California, France

Homotypic Synonyms

Amberboa muricata (L.) DC. in Prodr. 6: 559 (1838)
Centaurea muricata L. in Sp. Pl.: 918 (1753)
Cyanopsis muricata (L.) Dostál in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 71: 193 (1976)
Volutarella muricata (L.) Benth. & Hook.f. in Gen. Pl. 2: 476 (1873)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Amberboa micractis Boiss. & Reut. in P.E.Boissier, Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 2, 3: 62 (1856)
Calcitrapa elongata Moench in Methodus: 563 (1794)
Centaurea pubigera Pers. in Syn. Pl. 2: 488 (1807)
Cyanopsis radicatissima Cass. in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1817: 200 (1817), nom. superfl.
Volutaria muricata var. eumuricata Maire in É.Jahandiez & al., Cat. Pl. Maroc: 817 (1934), not validly publ.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

Agnew, A.D.Q. & Agnew, S., Upland Kenya Wild Flowers, ed. 2: 228 (1994).
C. Jeffrey in Kew Bulletin 22: 133 (1968).
Maire in Jahandiez & Maire, Cat. Pl. Maroc 3: 817 (1934).

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

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 Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Science Photographs
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