Volutaria

Cassini

Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1816: 200. 1816.

Etymology: Latin voluta, twisted, spiral, and - aria, possession, alluding to spirally coiled corolla lobes of original species
Synonyms: Cyanopsis Cassini Volutarella Cassini
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 174. Mentioned on page 67, 84.
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Volutaria muricata
Plectocephalus rothrockii
John Myers
John Myers
John Myers

Annuals, to 50 cm; taprooted, not spiny. Stems erect, branched, leafy; branches few–many, ascending. Leaves basal and cauline; winged-petiolate (basal and proximal cauline) or sessile (mid and distal cauline); blade margins entire to dentate or pinnately divided, faces villous (hairs septate), minutely glandular. Heads radiant, borne singly or in few-headed corymbiform arrays. Involucres ovoid, 10–15 mm diam. Phyllaries many in several series, unequal, appressed, ovate to lanceolate, margins entire, apices acute, tipped by ascending, spreading or reflexed, flattened spines. Receptacles flat, epaleate, bristly. Florets: peripheral neuter; corollas pink to purple, [blue, or yellow], spreading, lobes (5–6), linear; inner fertile, corollas pink to purple, [blue, yellow, or oarea, colored like the outer or not], tubes slender, throats narrowly cylindric, lobes linear-oblong; anther bases tailed, apical appendages lanceolate; style-branches: fused portions with minutely hairy nodes, distinct portions short, linear. Cypselae ± barrel-shaped, weakly compressed, ribbed, apices with prominent collars, faces pitted, attachment scars lateral (excavated, surrounded by prominent rims, with eliasomes); pappi persistent, of several series of many distinct, white to tawny, narrow scales. x = 8, 12, 13, 14.

Distribution

Introduced; Europe (Mediterranean region), w Asia, Macaronesia, ne Africa

Discussion

Species 16 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

"fine" is not a number.

... more about "Volutaria"
scarious +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
David J. Keil +
Cassini +
decurrent +
Asteraceae tribe Cynareae +
compound +  and simple +
divided +  and dentate +
10-nerved or 20-nerved +  and rugose +
actinomorphic +
pink +  and purple +
compressed +  and barrel--shaped +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Europe (Mediterranean region) +, w Asia +, Macaronesia +  and ne Africa +
Latin voluta, twisted, spiral, and - aria, possession, alluding to spirally coiled corolla lobes of original species +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
in few-headed corymbiform arrays +, singly +  and radiant +
indeterminate +
each +  and sessile +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
sessile +  and winged-petiolate +
cauline +  and basal +
linear-oblong +
usually lobed +  and dissected +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
papillate +  and smooth +
distinct +  and fused +
Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris +
flat;convex +
white;tawny +
distinct +
exalbuminous +
reflexed +, spreading +  and ascending +
flattened +
leafy +  and branched +
appendaged +  and truncate +
dilated +  and swollen +
enlarged +
Cyanopsis +  and Volutarella +
Volutaria +
Asteraceae tribe Cardueae +
cylindric +
slender +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br />) +
tree +, vine +, shrub +  and subshrub +
14 +, 13 +, 12 +  and 8 +