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Centaurea benedicta (L.) L.

This species name was first published in Sp. Pl. , ed. 2, 2: 1296 (1763)  

At the time of this classification snapshot, this species name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-0000034687.

Synonyms of Centaurea benedicta (L.) L.

Name Author Protologue Nomenclator WFO link
Cnicus kotschyi Sch.Bip. Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1857(App.): 24 (1857) wfo-0000003176
Cnicus benedictus L. Sp. Pl. : 826 (1753) wfo-0000009745
Carduus benedictus Auct. ex Steud. 151 1821 wfo-0000015332
Carbeni benedicta (L.) Arcang. Comp. Fl. Ital. [Arcangeli] 397. 1882 wfo-0000026386
Benedicta officinalis Bernh. Syst. Verz. Erf. : 159 (1800) wfo-0000035435
Cnicus microcephalus Boiss. Fl. Orient. 3: 705 (1875) wfo-0000039758
Cnicus benedictus var. benedictus wfo-0000048271
Centaurea centriflora Friv. ex Gugler Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 6: 215 (1908) wfo-0000060234
Cnicus benedictus var. microcephalus Boiss. Fl. Orient. [Boissier] 3: 705. 1875 wfo-0000063212
Epitrachys microcephala K.Koch Linnaea 24: 402 (1851) wfo-0000071162
Cardosanctus officinalis Bubani Fl. Pyren. 2: 152 (1899) wfo-0000072774
Carbeni benedicta Adans. Familles des Plantes 2 1763 wfo-0000073461
Calcitrapa benedicta (L.) Sweet Hort. Brit. 1: 218 (1826) wfo-0000075365
Carduus benedictus Garsault Fig. Pl. Méd. 2: 133 (1764) wfo-0000078039
Carbeni benedicta (L.) Benth. Genera Plantarum 2(1): 482 1873 wfo-0000080675
Cnicus pseudobenedictus Hort.Dorpat. ex Asch. Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) : 5 (1861) wfo-0000090211
Calcitrapa lanuginosa Lam. Fl. Franç. 1: 35 (1779) wfo-0000094440
Centaurea pseudobenedicta E.H.L.Krause Deutschl. Fl. 14: 24 (1906) wfo-0000095283
Cnicus bulgaricus Panov Fitologiya 48: 9 (1996) wfo-0000101998
Cnicus benedictus var. kotschyi (Sch.Bip.) Boiss. Fl. Orient. 3: 705 (1875) wfo-0000104196
Carbenia Adans. wfo-4100001390