Centaurea musarum Boiss. & Orph. (1856:112)

knapweed of the Muses 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Last record: 31 July 1855 (Constantinidis & Vassiliades, 1996:10)

Rediscovered in the late afternoon of 28 July 1995 (Constantinidis & Vassiliades, 1996:12)

Distribution

Greece

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Boissier, P. E. (1856). Diagnoses plantarum novarum praesertim orietalium 2,5: 112-113. Lipsiae.

Other references:

Constantinidis, T. and Vassiliades, D. (1996). Centaurea musarum (Compositae): the rediscovery of a rare endemic species. Botanika Chronika 12: 9-14.

Dimopoulos, P., Raus, Th., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, Th., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A. and Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. Berlin: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem; Athens: Hellenic Botanical Society. [Englera 31]. [p. 325]

Gamal-Eldin, E. and Wagenitz, G. (1991). Centaurea L., pp. 488-524. In: Strid, A. and Kit, Tan (eds.). Mountain Flora of Greece, vol. 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [possibly extinct]

López, Eusebio and Devesa, Juan Antonio. (2008). Contribución al conocimiento cariológico del género Centaurea L. (Asteraceae) en la Península Ibérica. Acta Botanica Malacitana Centaurea 33: 69-90. [automatic download]

Roskov Y. et al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.

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