Eryngium falcatum
Eryngium falcatum
Çatal boğadikeni
Slender perennial. Stems 20-70 cm, usually branched above the middle. Basal leaves withering at flowering time, narrowly triangular with cordate base, 2,5-6 x 1,5-4,5 cm, subcoriaceous, crenate-muticous. Cauline leaves subsessile, 3-5-sect into oblong-linear, spiny-margined segments. Inflorescence glaucous, racemose to narrowly paniculate; capitula 4-28, hemispherical, 8-15 mm diam. Bracts 5, linear, pungent, 2-4 x capitulum, bearing 2 slender deflexed spines at base. Outer bracteoles tricuspidate; inner entire or tricuspidate. Fl. 7-9. Rocky slopes, open woodland, macchie, s.l.-900 m.
W. Syria. E. Medit. element.
