Crepis incana Sm.
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Sm. (1813). In: Sibth. & Sm., Fl. Graec. Prodr. 2: 136.
Classification
- kingdom
- Plantae
- phylum
- Tracheophyta
- class
- Magnoliopsida
- order
- Asterales
- family
- Asteraceae
- genus
- Crepis
- species
- Crepis incana
Description
Herb, perennial, 3-15 cm high. Caudex 1.0-4.0 cm, up to 2.0 cm wide, simple or branched. Flowering stems 1-5, tomentose, robust, unbranched or weakly branched. Rosette leaves narrowly obovate, 3.0-13.0 cm long, 1.0-2.0 cm wide, entire or pinnatifid, entire or dentate, acute or mucronate, petiole-like attenuate with a winged petiole, tomentose or sometimes pubescent; lateral lobes triangular or narrowly ovate. Cauline leaves narrowly obovate, pinnatifid or entire, dentate or entire, mucronate, amplexicaul, tomentose, apically reduced to scales. Peduncle 2.0-13.0 cm long, glandular and pubescent or sometimes hispid, covered with bracts. Heads with 30-40 flowers. Involucre at flowering cylindric-campanulate, 9.0-13.0 mm long, at flowering 5.0-7.0 mm in diameter, tomentose or hispid; outer involucral bracts narrowly ovate, acute; inner involucral bracts narrowly ovate, obtuse. Receptacle alveolate and shortly ciliate. Corolla ligulate, 14.0 mm long; tube pubescent at apex; ligule 2.0 mm wide, pink. Anthertube pink and yellow, 4.0 mm long; apical appendages obtuse, 0.6 mm long. Style branches c. 2.0 mm long, yellow. Achenes 4.0-6.0 mm long, 0.8-1.4 mm wide, finely muricate or smooth, brown, with 10 ribs, equal or 3-4 slightly stronger, attenuate. Pappus white, 8.0 mm long, caducous, flexible.\r\rBased on: Babcock, E. B. 1947: The genus Crepis 2. – Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 22; Kamari, G. 1991: 39. Crepis L. - Pp. 576-595 in: Strid, A. & Tan K. (ed.), Mountain Flora of Greece 2. – Edinburgh.
Name
Bibliographic References
- (1813). Fl. Graec. Prodr. 2(1)
- J.E. Smith 1813: Fl. Graec. Prodr. 2