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Taxon: Carthamus oxyacanthus M. Bieb.

Genus: Carthamus
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 9239
Place of publication: Tabl. prov. Mer casp. 118. 1798 (Fl. taur.-caucas. 2:283. 1808 "oxyacantha")
Comment: there is no evidence in Fl. taur.-caucas. that this epithet was intended as a substantive
Name verified on: 15-Apr-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 07-Nov-2007
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 52 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
FL*, MA*, NC*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • wild safflower   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
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Economic importance:

  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq
    Caucasus: Azerbaijan
    Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan

References:

  • Babu, C. R. 1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun. (HF Dehra Dun) ["oxyacantha"].
  • Bhandari, M. M. 1978. Flora of the Indian desert. (F IndDes) ["oxyacantha"].
  • Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (L USSR) ["oxyacanthus"].
  • Hanelt, P. 1963. Monographische Übersicht der Gattung Carthamus L. (Compositae). Feddes Repert. 67:83–90. ["oxyacanthus"].
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard) ["oxyacanthus"].
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR) ["oxyacanthus"].
  • Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban) ["oxyacanthus"].
  • Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran) ["oxyacantha"].
  • Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India. (F India) ["oxyacantha"].
  • Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir. (L Pak) ["oxyacantha"].
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Check other databases for Carthamus oxyacanthus M. Bieb.:

  • Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?9239 (09 February 2010)

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