Cirsium 薊屬
型態特徵
Perennial or biennial prickly herbs, simple or few-branched. Leaves alternate, serrate-dentate or pinnatifid, often very spinescent. Heads large, heterogamous, many flowered, discoid, long-peduncled, florets uniform, bisexual. Involucre globose or ovoid, bracts in many series, appressed, erect, spreading or recurved, prickly tipped or unarmed. Receptacle flat or convex, densely bristly. Corolla slender, purple, pink, white or yellow, tube slender, limb equal or obliquely 5-lobed. Filaments hairy or rarely glabrous; anthers sagittate at base, auricles connate, lacerate. Style branches short, obtuse. Achenes glabrous, obovoid, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous, smooth or ribbed, truncate apically, base areolate, nearly straight. Pappus copious, bristles in many series, slender, feathery, deciduous with a basal ring.
About 250 species in Eurasia, northern and eastern Africa and North America; in Taiwan, nine species, one of which is represented by two varieties.
種列表
- Cirsium arisanense 阿里山薊
- Cirsium brevicaule 雞觴刺
- Cirsium ferum 鱗毛薊
- Cirsium hainanensis
- Cirsium hosokawae 細川氏薊
- Cirsium japonicum var. australe 南國小薊
- Cirsium japonicum var. takaoense 白花小薊
- Cirsium japonicum var. fukienense 長苞小薊
- Cirsium kawakamii 玉山薊
- Cirsium lineare 華薊
- Cirsium morii 森氏薊
- Cirsium suzukii 鈴木氏薊
- Cirsium taiwanense 臺灣薊
- Cirsium tatakaense 塔塔加薊
- Cirsium vulgare 翼薊
