Scabiosa canescens

Taxonavigation

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

Scabiosa canescens Waldst. & Kit., Descr. Icon. Pl. Hung. 1: 50 (1801).

Homotypic
- Asterocephalus canescens (Waldst. & Kit.) Lag., Gen. Sp. Pl.: 8 (1816).
- Columbaria canescens (Waldst. & Kit.) J.Presl & C.Presl, Fl. Čech.: 32 (1819).
Heterotypic
- Asterocephalus incanus Paxton, Pocket Bot. Dict.: 33 (1840).
- Asterocephalus suaveolens (Desf. ex DC.) Lag., Gen. Sp. Pl.: 8 (1816).
- Asterocephalus suaveolens var. canescens Wallr., Sched. Crit.: 51 (1822).
- Asterocephalus suaveolens var. hirsutus Wallr., Sched. Crit.: 51 (1822).
- Asterocephalus suaveolens var. virens Wallr., Sched. Crit.: 51 (1822).
- Columbaria suaveolens (Desf. ex DC.) Fourr., Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n.s., 16: 401 (1868).
- Scabiosa asterocephala Thuill., Fl. Env. Paris, ed. 2: 72 (1799).
- Scabiosa columbaria var. asterocephala (Thuill.) Mérat, Nouv. Fl. Env. Paris: 54 (1812).
- Scabiosa columbaria subsp. suaveolens (Desf. ex DC.) Bonnier & Layens, Tabl. Syn. Pl. Vasc. France: 148 (1894).
- Scabiosa incana Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 3: 521 (1818), nom. illeg.
- Scabiosa suaveolens Desf. ex DC. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck & A.P.de Candolle, Fl. Franç., éd. 3, 4: 229 (1805).
- Scabiosa suaveolens var. hirsuta (Wallr.) Klett & Richt., Fl. Leipzig: 134 (1830).
- Scabiosa suaveolens var. virens (Wallr.) Klett & Richt., Fl. Leipzig: 134 (1830).
- Scabiosa virga-pastoris Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 9 (1768).

Scabiosa canescens DC., Prodr. 4: 651 (1830), not validly publ. = Knautia arvensis (L.) Coult., Mém. Dipsac.: 29 (1823).

Native distribution areas:
Europe Middle Europe Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland. Northern Europe Denmark, Sweden. Southeastern Europe Romania (Doubtful), Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia). Southwestern Europe France. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

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