Echinops dumanii
Echinops dumanii
Kum dikeni
Perennial herbs. Whitish-grey. Stem single, erect, branched, several headed, sturdy, ridged, up to 1 m, densely lanate with scattered purplish glandular hairs. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate in outline, 1-2 pinnatisect with oblong to oblong-lanceolate segments with revolute margins and sturdy spines up to 1 cm; grey with aracnoid-lanate and rarely with some glandular hairs above, almost white with dense lanate beneath with scattered purplish glandular hairs. Basal leaves petiolate up to 42 × 18 cm; cauline leaves subamplexicaule, simple. Heads 3.5-7 cm in diameter, borne at the ends of stems and branches, greyish to bluish. Capitula up to 30 mm long, brush equal to longer than outer phyllaries, 11-14 mm long. Phyllaries 15-18; outer 9-12 mm, glabrous spathulate-deltoid, margins serrate; median 15-25 mm with spines, ovate to lanceolate, margins serrate; innermost connate to about more than their length. Corolla white or pale blue; tube 10-11 mm long, glandular, lobes 8-9.5 mm. Anther bases tailed and fimbriate. Achenes 9-11 mm, covered with yellow hairs. Pappus bristles connate at basal half.
The species is known only from Yumurtalık .
