Eryngium thorifolium
Eryngium thorifolium
Kör boğadikeni
Rigid perennial. Stem 80-150 cm, slender, branched above. Basal leaves persistent, bizarre, thickly coriaceous, suborbicular-reniform with retuse apex and cordate base, 5-9 x 6-13 cm, crenate-spinose. Median and upper cauline leaves subsessile, palmatifid or trifid into spiny lobes. Inflorescence greenish, sparsely ascending-paniculate; capitula up to 20, hemispherical, 12-20 mm diam. Bracts 6-8, linear-lanceolate, keeled, pungent, 2-6-dentate, 1-3 x capitulum. Bracteoles all tricuspidate. Fl 7. Rocky serpentine slopes, often in open Pinus forest, 50-1950 m.
A serpentine endemic, without near allies. E. Medit. element.
