Eryngium polycephalum

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Glabrous perennial with a fibrous collar. Flowering stems erect, 50-150 cm, unbranched, yellowish-green. Basal leaves persistent, with a 5-10 cm petiole, coriaceous; lamina suborbicular in outline, 5-10 cm, dissected and ternately compound, prominently veined, glaucous; lobes broadly ovate to suborbicular, overlapping, dentate, spines short, 1-3 mm. Median cauline leaves petiolate; petioles 1-3 cm, apically expanded, amplexicaul, with c. 1 mm auricles, margins not spiny; lamina trisect to midrib, lobes divided to less than 1/3. Floral leaves sessile, tripartite, c. 2 cm, lobes entire. Inflorescence 25-60 cm, spicate below, umbellate above, yellowish-green. Involucral bracts 5-7, unequal, linear-lanceolate, 10-20 mill, entire, shorter than or equalling capitula, 2 mm wide and 3-5-veined at base, spiny. Capitula 25-50, hemispherical to subglobose, 10-15 x 15-20 mm . Bracteoles all entire, linear, 5-7 mm, ± equalling flowers. Sepals obovate, 2.5-3 mm, longer than corolla, with thickened midvein ending in a spinose tip. Corolla c. 2 mm, cream. Style exserted. Fruits oblong, c. 4 mm, densely covered with scarious scales; lateral scales longer than those on dorsal and ventral surfaces. Fl. 7-8. Steppes, 1450-1850 m.

Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element.