Jurinea
Cass.
Herbs, annual or perennial. Leaves entire, toothed, or pinnatifid, rarely armed, more
or less tomentose. Heads homogamous. Flowers purple, all bisexual; tube slender; limb
elongate, 5-fid to middle or lower. Involucral bracts many-seriate, imbricate; outer
shorter; innennost narrow, erect. Receptacle flat, densely bristly. Filaments free,
glabrous; anther bases sagittate; auricles usually connate; tails elongate. Style arms short.
Achenes 4 - 5-angled, glabrous, smooth or 1 - 3 -ribbed. Pappus hairs many-seriate, simple,
barbellate or feathery.
C. Europe, Mediterranean region to China, C. Asia; ca 100 species, 2 in India.
Literature. ILJIN, M.M. (1925). Revision of Turkistan species of the genus Jurinea Cass. Trans. Sci. Soc. Turkest. 2: 1-28. Pl. 1-10. (In Russian).
Notes. Some of the species of Jurinea have been treated under Dolomiaea DC. and Diplazoptilon Liang. As the author could not examine the type/authentic material of these genera the species treated under Dolomiaea and Diplazoptilon by different authors are treated here under Jurinea only.
C. Europe, Mediterranean region to China, C. Asia; ca 100 species, 2 in India.
Literature. ILJIN, M.M. (1925). Revision of Turkistan species of the genus Jurinea Cass. Trans. Sci. Soc. Turkest. 2: 1-28. Pl. 1-10. (In Russian).
Notes. Some of the species of Jurinea have been treated under Dolomiaea DC. and Diplazoptilon Liang. As the author could not examine the type/authentic material of these genera the species treated under Dolomiaea and Diplazoptilon by different authors are treated here under Jurinea only.
KEY TO THE SPECIES
| 1a. Leaves cottony above; pappus brown | 2. Jurinea dolomiaea |
| b. Leaves scabrid above; pappus whitish | 1. Jurinea cooperi |
