CRUPINA (Pers.) DC. - CRUPINA
Scientific Description:
Slender erect annual herbs. Leaves alternate, sessile, unarmed, pinnatisect to pinnate, bearing multicellular, glochidiate hairs at margin. Capitula heterogamous, disciform (marginal flowers morphologically female but sterile), corymbose. Involucre fusiform to ovoid; phyllaries pluriseriate, imbricate, adpressed, scarious, unarmed. Receptacle flat, paleaceous. Flowers pink, red or purple; corolla regularly 5-lobed, tube hairy. Achenes smooth, velutinous, cylindrical or compressed, with basal or lateral hilum. Pappus comprising several outer rows of light brown to black barbellate bristles and an inner shorter row of 5−10 black triangular scales.
Reference:
Kupicha FK (1975). Crupina (Pers.)DC., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 586.
Public Description:
Crupina, known as “crupina”, is native to Asia, Europe, North Africa, China, North America, Australia. There are 5 species in the world and 3 species (3 taxa) in Türkiye. They are slender annual herbs with pink, red or purple flowers. The “common crupina (Crupina vulgaris Cass.)” is a notorious noxious weed.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Crupina, Accessed date: 13.11.2017.
Anonymous 2 (2017). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Compositae/Crupina/, Accessed date: 13.11.2017.
Anonymous 3 (2017). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/search/?q=crupina, Accessed date: 13.11.2017.
Ekim T (2012). Crupina (Pers.) DC., 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. 154.
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