Amberboa
(Pers.) Less.
Annuals. Leaves alternate. Heads heterogamous, purple, violet or blue. Ray florets
1-seriate, neutral. Disc florets bisexual, fertile tube slender, short; limb cylindric, 5-fid.
Involucral bracts many-seriate; outer shorter, acute, awned or spinescent; innermost
narrow, acute. Receptacle flat, densely bristly. Filaments glabrous or hairy; anther bases
sagittate, auricles connate, shortly tailed. Style filiform; arms free or connate. Achenes
obovoid or oblong, subulate or angled, 5 - 15-ribbed. Pappus bristles many-seriate;
outermost shorter; innermost 2 - 4, dialated and flattened.
Mediterranean to C. Asia; ca 20 species, 2 in India.
Literature. ILJIN, M.M. (1932). A critical survey of the genus Amberboa Less. Bull. lord. Bot. Acad. Sci. URSS 30: 101-116. (In Russian with a brief English resume). SHARMA, A.M. (1982). J. Econ. Tax. Bot. 3(2): 529.
Mediterranean to C. Asia; ca 20 species, 2 in India.
Literature. ILJIN, M.M. (1932). A critical survey of the genus Amberboa Less. Bull. lord. Bot. Acad. Sci. URSS 30: 101-116. (In Russian with a brief English resume). SHARMA, A.M. (1982). J. Econ. Tax. Bot. 3(2): 529.
KEY TO THE SPECIES
| 1a. Heads ca 1.2 cm across | 2. Amberboa ramosa |
| b. Heads ca 2 cm across | 1. Amberboa moschata |
