Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Annual or biennial thistles. Leaves alternate or borne in a basal rosette, white-veined or variegated above, sinuately lobed or pinnatifid, with a spiny margin. Capitula discoid, solitary, terminal, erect or nodding. Phyllaries of many spiny bracts. Receptacle hairy, not pitted. Florets all tubular and bisexual, red-purple; stamens united below into a tube. Achenes obovoid, flattened, glabrous, crowned with a membranous border. Pappus of many rows of rough hairs, united below into a basal ring.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Silybum Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=2101
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
