Helminthotheca echioides (L.) Holub
- Dataset
- Cichorieae Systematics Portal
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Holub 1973: – Folia geobotanica et phytotaxonomica 8
Classification
- genus
- Helminthotheca
- species
- Helminthotheca echioides
Description
Herb, biennial, pauciennial or annual, (5)-10-80-(100) cm high, hispid. Flowering stems erect, ribbed, unbranched or branched. Lower cauline leaves obovate to elliptic, 4.0-12.0 cm long, 1.0-2.0 cm wide, entire or dentate, obtuse or acute, petiole-like attenuate. Middle and upper cauline leaves ovate to elliptic, acute, semiamplexicaul with shortly projecting auricles. Synflorescence corymbiform. Peduncle 1.0-5.0 cm long. Involucre at flowering broadly campanulate, 10.0-18.0 mm long, at flowering 8.0-15.0 mm in diameter; outer involucral bracts ovate, 10.0-18.0 mm long, (3.0)-6.0-10.0 mm wide, acuminate, hispid at margins and midrib; inner involucral bracts linear, 10.0-18.0 mm long, 2.0-3.5 mm wide, hispid at midrib, margin scarious. Receptacle flat, pitted, without scales. Corolla ligulate, yellow; tube c. 6.0 mm long, glabrous below and pilose at apex; ligule c. 7.0 mm long, 0.8 mm wide, tinged purple. Anthertube c. 2.0 mm long; apical appendages obtuse. Style c. 10.0 mm long, greenish; branches c. 1.0 mm long. Achenes dimorphic, the outer achenes a little longer than the inner ones, with a shorter pappus, all narrowly obovoid or cylindrical in outline, compressed, (2.0)-3.0-3.5 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide, glabrous, transversely wrinkled, light brown, with a filiform beak; beak 5.0-6.0 mm long. Pappus white, (4.5)-6.0-7.0 mm long, plumose.\r\rBased on: Meikle, R.D. 1985: Flora auf Cyprus 2. – Kew; Sell, P. and Murell, G. 2006: Flora of Great Britain and Ireland 4. – Cambridge; Tadesse, M. 2004: 27. Helminthotheca - Pp. 71 in: Hedberg, I., Friis, I., Edwards, S. Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea. – Uppsala.
Name
- Synonyms
- Crepis echioides (L.) All.
- Helminthia aculeata subsp. mollis (Duby) Arcang.
- Helminthia dichotoma Dulac
- Helminthia echioides (L.) Gaertn.
- Helminthia echioides var. mollis Duby
- Helminthia humifusa Trevir.
- Helminthia pratensis Chevall.
- Helminthia rigida Schult. ex Steud.
- Helminthia tuberculata Moench
- Helminthotheca echioides var. incisa P. D. Sell
- Helminthotheca echioides var. mollis (Duby) P. D. Sell
- Helminthotheca echioides var. pratensis (Chevall.) P. D. Sell
- Picris echioides L.
- Picris ruderalis Salisb.
- Homonyms
- Helminthotheca echioides (L.) Holub
- Common names
- Abrojo in language.
- Aspraggine volgare in Italian
- Aspraggine volgare in Italian
- Bristly Oxtongue in English
- Bristly oxtongue in English
- Bıllurdüğme in Turkish
- Cifur si shelligë in Albanian
- Draslavec hadincovitý in Czech
- Goryczel żmijowcowy in Polish
- Helminthie in French
- Helminthie fausse Vipérine in French
- Lisičinasti jagušac in language.
- Lyktfibbla in Swedish
- Natternkopf-Bitterkraut in German
- Ox Tongue in English
- Ox tongue in English
- Ox-tongue in English
- Ox-tongue in English
- Ox-tongue in English
- Ox-tongue in English
- Oxtongue in English
- Picride Vipérine in French
- Picride fausse Vipérine in French
- Picride fausse vipérine in French
- Picride fausse vipérine in French
- Picride fausse-vipérine in French
- Picris Vipérine in French
- Picris fausse Vipérine in French
- Picris fausse vipérine in French
- Wurmlattich in German
- Wurmsalat in German
- Едролюспесто горичивче in Bulgarian
- תּוֹלַעֲנִית דּוֹקְרָנִית in Hebrew
- תולענית דוקרנית in Hebrew
- مُرَّيْر أَخْيومي in Arabic
- مُرَّيْر أَخْيومي in Arabic
Bibliographic References
- Holub 1973: – Folia geobotanica et phytotaxonomica 8