Mantisalca

Cassini

Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1818: 142. 1818.

Etymology: Anagram of specific epithet salmantica
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 173. Mentioned on page 57, 67, 84.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA19 P10 Mantisalca salmantica.jpegMantisalca salmantica
Volutaria muricata
Plectocephalus rothrockii
John Myers
John Myers
John Myers

Biennials or perennials, 50–100 cm, herbage not spiny. Stems erect, branched. Leaves basal and cauline; petiolate (basal) or sessile (cauline); blade margins ± lobed (proximal) or dentate or lobed (distal), sparsely hirsute (basal and proximal cauline) or glabrous (distal cauline). Heads radiant, borne singly. Involucres ovoid to spheric, 10–15 mm diam. Phyllaries many in 6–8 series, unequal, appressed, ovate, margins entire, apices obtuse to acute, narrowly membranous fringed, each with a short deciduous spine. Receptacles flat, epaleate, long-bristly. Florets many; outer neuter, corollas expanded and ± raylike, ± bilateral, staminodes present; inner fertile, corollas purple (rarely white), radial, tubes very slender, throats narrowly funnelform, lobes linear; anther bases tailed, apical appendages oblong; style-branches: fused portions with minutely hairy nodes, distinct portions minute. Cypselae ± barrel-shaped, ± compressed, with elaiosomes ribbed, transversely roughened, apices without prominent collars, smooth, faces glabrous, basal attachment scars oblique or lateral; pappi of several series, outer of stiff, scabrous bristles, inner a single abaxial scale. x = 9, 10, 11.

Distribution

Introduced; Mediterranean region

Discussion

Species 4 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

"fine" is not a number.

... more about "Mantisalca"
fringed;obtuse;acute +
membranous +
racemiform +, paniculiform +  and corymbiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
David J. Keil +
Cassini +
decurrent +
Asteraceae tribe Cynareae +
compound +  and simple +
glabrous +  and hirsute +
lobed +  and dentate +
10-nerved or 20-nerved +  and rugose +
radial +  and bilateral +
white +, cyanic +, yellow +  and ochroleucous +
expanded +
compressed +  and barrel--shaped +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Mediterranean region +
Anagram of specific epithet salmantica +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
singly +  and radiant +
indeterminate +
each +  and sessile +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
ovoid;spheric +
sessile +  and petiolate +
cauline +  and basal +
deltate +, usually narrowly triangular +  and more or less linear +
usually lobed +  and dissected +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
papillate +  and smooth +
distinct +  and fused +
Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris +
flat;convex +
exalbuminous +
several;6;8 +
deciduous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
dilated +  and swollen +
enlarged +
Compositae +
Mantisalca +
Asteraceae tribe Cardueae +
slender +
perennial +  and biennial +
50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
tree +, vine +, shrub +  and subshrub +
11 +, 10 +  and 9 +