Crocodilium crocodylium

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Crocodilium crocodylium (L.) Hill, Hort. Kew. ed. 1: 63 (1768).

Basionym
- Centaurea crocodylium L., Sp. Pl.: 919 (1753).
Homotypic
- Crocodilium syriacum Cass. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 12: 19 (1819), nom. nov.
- Colymbada crocodylium (L.) Holub, Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 7: 315 (1972).
Heterotypic
- Calcitrapa cucullata Moench, Methodus: 563 (1794).
  - Crocodilium cucullatum (Moench) Sweet, Hort. Brit.: 217 (1826).
- Centaurea crocodylioides Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. 10: 118 (1849).
  - Centaurea crocodylium var. crocodylioides (Boiss.) Boiss., Fl. Orient. 3: 680 (1875).
- Centaurea dinsmoreana Bornm., Mitth. Thüring. Bot. Vereins, n.s., 30: 77 (1913).

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Western Asia Lebanon-Syria, Palestine. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Font, M., Garnatje, T. Garcia-Jacas, N. & Susanna, A. 2002. Delineation and phylogeny of Centaurea sect. Acrocentron based on DNA sequences: a restoration of the genus Crocodylium and indirect evidence of introgression. Plant Systematics and Evolution 234(1–4): 14–26. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-002-0203-3 Academia Reference page.

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