Amberboa

Amberboa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, described as a genus in 1832.[1][2]

Amberboa
Amberboa moschata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Carduoideae
Tribe: Cardueae
Subtribe: Centaureinae
Genus: Amberboa
(Pers.) Less.
Type species
Amberboa moschata
(Linnaeus) A. P. de Candolle
Synonyms
  • Chryseis Cass.
  • Amblyopogon (DC.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex DC.
  • Centaurea subg. Amberboa Pers.
  • Stephanochilus Coss. & Durieu ex Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Amberboa Vaill.

Species in this genus are native to central and southwestern Asia.[3][4]

Species[5]

  • Amberboa amberboi (L.) Tzvelev - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Armenia
  • Amberboa bucharica Iljin - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran
  • Amberboa glauca (Puschk. ex Willd.) Muss.Puschk. ex Grossh. - Caucasus, Iran, Turkey
  • Amberboa moschata (L.) DC. - Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Iraq
  • Amberboa nana (Boiss.) Iljin - Altai, Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Kazakhstan
  • Amberboa odorata (Cass.) DC.
  • Amberboa ramosa (Roxb.) Jafri - India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
  • Amberboa sosnovskyi Iljin - Caucasus, Iran
  • Amberboa turanica Iljin - Russia, Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, Xinjiang, Pakistan, Afghanistan

References
  1. Lessing, Christian Friedrich. 1832. Synopsis generum compositarum earumque dispositionis novae tentamen, monographis multarum Capensium interjectis 8 in Latin
  2. Tropicos, Amberboa (Pers.) Less.
  3. "Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist". Archived from the original on 2014-11-05. Retrieved 2014-11-05.
  4. Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 186 珀菊属 po ju shu Amberboa Vaillant, Königl. Akad. Wiss. Paris. 5: 182. 1754.
  5. The Plant List search for Amberboa

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