Eryngium scaposum Turcz.

Eryngium scaposum Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 20 1 : 172. 1847.
Eryngium Nelsoni Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 300. 1895. Eryngium longipetiolatum Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. pi. 2504. 1897. Eryngium costaricense H. Wolff. Repert. Sp. Nov. 7: 278. 1909. Eryngium commulalum H Wolff, Repert. Sp. Nov. 8: 306. 1910.
Low, short-caulescent or acaulescent, glabrous perennials, 0.5-3 dm. high, from a fascicle of fibrous roots, the stems solitary to many, erect or ascending, slender, simple below; basal leaves rosulate, spatulate to obovate, 2-10 cm. long, 1-4 cm. broad, cuneate at the base, dbtuse at the apex, callous-margined, crenate or crenate-serrate, the venation reticulate; petioles winged, 1-10 cm. long, shorter or longer than the blades; cauline leaves few, like the basal, the upper reduced, sessile, incised, opposite; inflorescence simple or cymosely fewbranched, the heads few, small, pedunculate, the flowers numerous; heads amethystine, subglobose, 4-8 mm. in diameter; bracts 8-12, chartaceous, ascending, oblong to oblanceolate, 6-15 mm. long, 2-8 mm. broad, obtuse or acute, apiculate, entire or toothed near the apex, blue or greenish beneath and glaucous above, exceeding the heads; bractlets subulate, 2-4 mm. long, entire, acute, about equaling the fruit; coma wanting; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2 mm. long, acute or obtuse, mucronate, entire; petals oblong, 1.5-2 mm. long; styles slender, exceeding the sepals; fruit globose-ovoid, 2-3 mm. long, the calycine and lateral scales ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the dorsal scales few or wanting.
Type locality: Oaxaca, 9000 feet, Galeotti 2766.
Distribution: Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas to Costa Rica (Pringle 4S34, J. D. Smith 7528).

Eryngium scaposum là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa tán. Loài này được Turcz. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1847.