View source for Silybum ← Silybum You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Silybum |accepted_authority=Adanson |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Fam. Pl. |place=2: 116, 605. 1763 |year=1763 }} |common_names=Milk thistle |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cardueae;Silybum |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cardueae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Silybum]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek silybon, a kind of thistle |volume=Volume 19 |mention_page=page 66, 82, 83 |treatment_page=page 164 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or biennials, taprooted, 15–300 cm, herbage glabrous, puberulent, or slightly tomentose, spiny. <b>Stems</b> erect, usually simple. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate (basal and proximal cauline) or sessile (distal cauline); blades adaxially variegated, margins dentate and often coarsely pinnately lobed, teeth and lobes spine-tipped, glabrous or puberulent. <b>Heads</b> discoid, borne singly, terminal and in distal axils. (Peduncles with reduced leaflike bracts.) Involucres ovoid to spheric, 15–60 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> many in 4–6 series, unequal, outer and mid with appressed bases and spreading, lanceolate to ovate, spiny-fringed, terminal appendages, at least mid spine-tipped, innermost with erect, flat, entire, spineless apices. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, epaleate, covered with whitish bristles. <b>Florets</b> 25–100+; corollas pink to purple, tubes slender, distally bent, abruptly expanded into short throats, lobes linear; stamen filaments connate, anther bases sharply short-tailed, anther appendages oblong; style branches: fused portions with slightly swollen subterminal nodes, distally cylindric, distinct portions minute. <b>Cypselae</b> ovoid, slightly compressed, not ribbed, apices with smooth, entire rims, glabrous, basal attachment scars slightly angled; pappi falling in rings, outer of many minutely barbed, basally connate, subulate scales, inner of minute smooth bristles. <b>x</b> = 17.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Mediterranean region. |discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Silybum |author=David J. Keil |authority=Adanson |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Asteraceae |distribution=Mediterranean region. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Fam. Pl. |publication year=1763 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_170.xml |tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cardueae |genus=Silybum }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Asteraceae tribe Cardueae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Asteraceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Silybum.