Centaurea L.
Creators: name: Bona, Mehmet
name: Çiftçi, Almıla
name: Ekşi, Gülnur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Centaurea

description: KEY TO THE STUDIED TAXA ACCORDING TO CYPSELA CHARACTERISTICS
1. Pappus absent .............................................................................................................................................. 2
— Pappus present ........................................................................................................................................... 3
2. Boundaries wavy, thick ................................................................................. C. calcitrapa subsp. calcitrapa L.
— Boundaries straight, thin ................................................ C. calcitrapa subsp. cilicica (Boiss. & Bal.) Wagenitz
3. Pappus whitish, straw .................................................................................................................................. 4
— Pappus brown, purplish, coppery ................................................................................................................ 7
4. Pappus plumose ..................................................................................................................... C. glastifolia L.
— Pappus barbellate ........................................................................................................................................ 5
5. Cypsela surface glabrous ............................................................................................ C. regia Boiss. var. regia
— Cypsela surface scarcely scarcely-hairy ......................................................................................................... 6
6. Cypsela surface hairs glandular .......................................................................................... C. sclerolepis Boiss.
— Cypsela surface hairs not glandular ......................................................................................... C. solstitialis L.
7. Pappus purplish ........................................................................................................ C. goksivriensis M. Bona
— Pappus brownish or coppery ....................................................................................................................... 8
8. Cypsela brown with cream stripes ................................................................................................................ 9
— Cypsela straw to whitish with no stripes .................................................................................................... 12
9. Cypsela surface smooth ............................................................................................................................. 10
— Cypsela surface not smooth ....................................................................................................................... 11
10. Cypsela glabrous ............................................................................. C. cataonica Boiss. & Hausskn. in Boiss.
— Cypsela scarcely hairy .................................................................................................. C. rigida Banks & Sol.
11. Cypsela shorter than pappus ............................................................................................. C. antitauri Hayek
— Cypsela longer than pappus ..................................................................................... C. amanicola Hub. -Mor.
12. Pappus coppery in colour ............................................................................................................. C. behen L.
— Pappus colour brownish ............................................................................................................................ 13
13. Cypsela scarcely hairy ................................................................................................ C. haradjianii Wagenitz
— Cypsela glabrous ....................................................................................................................................... 14
14. Cypsela surface smooth ............................................................................................... C. haussknechtii Boiss.
— Cypsela surface reticulate ....................................................................................................... C. spicata Boiss.
description: Published as part of Bona, Mehmet, Çiftçi, Almıla & Ekşi, Gülnur, 2023, Cypsela micro-macromorphological characteristics of selected taxa of Centaurea L. from Turkey and their systematic importance, pp. 27-39 in Adansonia (3) (3) 45 (2) on page 36, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2023v45a2, http://zenodo.org/record/7616670