CHONDRILLA L.SKELETONWEED

SPECIES

CHONDRILLA L. - SKELETONWEED

Scientific Description:

Biennial or perennial herbs with branched stems. Leaves mostly basal, cauline ones linear or absent. Capitula homogamous, ligulate, terminal or axillary, sessile or pedunculate. Involucre cylindrical; phyllaries 2−3-seriate, inner subequal and much longer than outer. Receptacle flat, naked. Flowers deep yellow. Achenes glabrous, terete or angular, beaked, 5-ribbed (ribs 2−3-striate), ± smooth, or muricate above and bearing a ring of tooth-like scales at apex; beak deciduous. Pappus hairs 1-seriate, white, scabrous.

 

Reference:
Mathew B (1975). Chondrilla L.,
In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 812.

Public Description:

Chondrilla is a genus of biennial or perennial herbs known as “skeletonweed”, is native to Eurasia. There are approximately 41 species in the world and 2 species (2 taxa) in Türkiye. They are multi-branched herbaceous plants with deep yellow flowers. The best known of these is “rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea L.)”, a noxious weed established in Africa, Australia, and the Americas.

 

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrilla_(plant)/, Accessed date: 11.01.2016.

Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Compositae/Chondrilla/, Accessed date: 11.01.2016.

Ekim T (2012). Chondrilla L. In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 140.

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