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Eryngium spinalba (Eryngium spinalba)

Description

The silver-throated calacatre ( Eryngium spinalba Vill. 1779 ) is a herbaceous plant of the Apiaceae family endemic to the Maritime Alps It is a perennial bushy, scaposa hemicriptophyte plant with scarcely branching stems The leaves are coriaceous and thorny, the basalis deeply divided. The bracts from 15 to 30 per plant, are greenish from 6 to 9 cm long. The flowers are gathered in purple umbrellas ; the peripheral ones are unisexual or sterile, the central hermaphrodite ones

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Apiales

            • Family: Apiaceae

              • Genus: Eryngium