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Myopordon pulchellum
Myopordon pulchellum (Arabic: مِيوبُرْدون ظَريف) is a species of flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae.
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Description
The plant is sub-acaulescent with a single flowering head, it measures 3 to 5 centimetres (1.2 to 2.0 in). The briefly petiolated leaves are arranged in a rosette around a thick rhizome; the leaves form a sheath around the base. The leaves are appressed, pinnatifid or lyrate and the contour is ovate to lanceolate; both leave faces are canescent with ciliated and spiny margins. The pant's receptacle has silky trichomes. Involucral bracts are canescent and covered with cobweb-like hairs, each bract ends with a single spine. The fruit is a smooth rotund achene with lateral hilum measuring 5 millimetres (0.20 in) long and 1 millimetre (0.039 in) wide surmounted by a white pappus.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 908005.