Tragopogon
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Ordo: Asterales
Familia: Asteraceae
Name
Tragopogon L., Sp. Pl. 2: 789. 1753. – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Lectotype
(Díaz de la Guardia & Blanca in Jarvis et al. 1993[1]: 95): Tragopogon porrifolius L.
Diagnostic features
Biennial or perennial herbs with taproot; leaves mostly graminoid; involucre with phyllaries in a single series; capitula with > 20 yellow, orange, violet or purple florets; achenes often with a prominent beak; pappus plumose.
Description
Habit, life form, subterranean parts: Biennial or perennial herbs with a taproot.
Leaves: rosulate and cauline, graminoid (sessile, subamplexicaule, with prominent midrib), linear to oblong, margin entire or undulate.
Stem, synflorescence: stem solitary or branched, always leafy, glabrous to lanate; peduncle sometimes inflated.
Capitula: involucre glabrous to lanate, cylindrical, phyllaries in one series, triangular or oblong, equal in size, acute, receptacle flat, naked; with > 20 florets, of various length ratios compared to involucre, yellow, orange, violet or purple.
Pollen: echinolophate, tricolporate and each colpus divided into 2 lacunae, with 15 (6 abporal, 3 equatorial 6 interporal) lacunae (Blackmore 1982[2]).
Achenes: 9–55 mm, cylindrical, without carpopodium, often with a beak exceeding the length of the achene body, with 5–10 ribs, rarely some of them winglike enlarged, surface usually papillate and with stout conglomerations, rarely smooth; achene wall with parenchyma of thick-walled cells, air cavities usually present, small or large, sclerenchyma continuous, forming a sheath, cells orientated parallel to the achene axis.
Pappus: 6–40 mm, bristles plumose in lower, scabrid in upper part, white, dirty white, yellowish or fulvous.
Chromosome number
x = 7, diploid.
Species
Appr. 150 species. The largest genus in Scorzonerinae after splitting of Scorzonera.
Distribution area
N Africa: DZ; EG; LY; TN. Europe: all countries; Asia-Temperate: AF; AM; AZ; CH; GE; IL; IQ; IR; JO; KG; KW; KZ; LB; SY; SA; TJ; TK; TR; UZ. Asia-Tropical: IN; NP; PK.
Taxon Treatment
- Zaika, M; Kilian, N; Jones, K; Krinitsina, A; Nilova, M; Speranskaya, A; Sukhorukov, A; 2020: Scorzonera sensu lato (Asteraceae, Cichorieae) – taxonomic reassessment in the light of new molecular phylogenetic and carpological analyses PhytoKeys, 137: 1-85. doi
Other References
- ↑ Jarvis C, Barrie F, Allan D, Reveal J (1993) A list of Linnaean generic names and their types.Regnum Vegetabile127: 1–100.
- ↑ Blackmore S (1982) Palynology of subtribe Scorzonerinae (Compositae. Lactuceae) and its taxonomic significance.Grana21(3): 149–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/00173138209427691