Code
MNASA
Growth form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Annual to biennial
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Calcitrapa altissima Lam. |
| synonym | Calcitrapa brevispina Moench |
| synonym | Centaurea besseriana Janka ex Nyman |
| synonym | Centaurea codruensis Prodán |
| synonym | Centaurea leptoloncha (Spach) Rouy |
| synonym | Centaurea lyraefolia Salisb. |
| synonym | Centaurea lyrifolia Salisb. |
| synonym | Centaurea salmantica L. |
| synonym | Centaurea salmantica var. clusii (Spach) Ball |
| synonym | Centaurea salmantica var. leptoloncha (Spach) Ball |
| synonym | Centaurea tenella Hort. ex Spreng. |
| synonym | Centaurea tenuiflora Fisch. |
| synonym | Centaurea yserniana f. longispinosa Pau |
| synonym | Cirsium salamanticum (L.) Hill |
| synonym | Cirsium salmanticum (L.) Hill |
| synonym | Crocodilium salmanticum Sweet |
| synonym | Mantisalca elegans Cass. |
| synonym | Mantisalca salmantica var. biennis Maire |
| synonym | Mantisalca salmantica var. leptoloncha (Spach) Ball |
| synonym | Mantisalca salmantica var. salmantica |
| synonym | Microlonchus cichoraceus K.Koch |
| synonym | Microlonchus clusii Spach |
| synonym | Microlonchus clusii var. leptocephalus Reyn. |
| synonym | Microlonchus delileanus Spach |
| synonym | Microlonchus delilianus Spach |
| synonym | Microlonchus elatus Spach |
| synonym | Microlonchus gracilis Pomel |
| synonym | Microlonchus leptolonchus Spach |
| synonym | Microlonchus papposus Spach |
| synonym | Microlonchus salmanticus (L.) DC. |
| synonym | Microlonchus salmanticus var. gracilis (Pomel) Batt. |
| synonym | Microlonchus salmanticus var. leptolonchus (Spach) Ball |
| synonym | Microlonchus spinulosus Rouy |
| synonym | Microlonchus tenellus Spach |
| synonym | Microlonchus valdemorensis Cut. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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Seedling
Cotyledons fairly large, 13-15 x 5-8 mm, elliptic, with rounded apex, gradually tapering to petiole, glabrous. First leaves rosette-shaped, simple, lanceolate, elliptic, petiolate, hairy with white hairs. The hypocotyled axis is short. Light green seedling.
Adult plant
Mantisalca salmantica is an erect annual or biennial species. The stem is very branched, spindly, ridged, stiff, up to 1.50 m height, glabrous or pubescent. The basal leaves are rosette-shaped, pennatifid or lyrate, petiolate, the upper leaves linear or lanceolate, toothed, with subulate tips, and sessile. Capitula with florets all tubular, purplish, sometimes white, ovate, very narrow at the apex, 12-19 x 7-15 mm. Involucral bracts green, shiny, mucronate, imbricate in several rows. Achenes 3.5-5 mm long, brown, longitudinally and transversely ribbed, with whitish, multi-seriate bristle pappus, slightly shorter than the body of the achene.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
Name(s)
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Annual
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Algeria: Mantisalca salmantica germinates in autumn and winter and flowers from March to June.
Morocco: Mantisalca salmantica blooms from April to July.
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Reproduction
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Mantisqalca salmantica reproduces by seed.
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Size
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Morphology
Growth form
Erected
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Simple
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Ridged or grooved
Root type
Taproot
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
No stipule
Leaf attachment type
sessile
with petiole
Fruit type
Achene
Achene type
Achene with plumose pappus
Cotyledon type
elliptic
Lamina margin
largely dentate
irregular
Lamina apex
acute
Upperface pilosity
Less hairy
Upperface hair type
Long
Lowerface pilosity
Less hairy
Lowerface hair type
Long
Simple leaf type
Lamina linear
Lamina deeply lobed
Lamina section
flat
Lamina Veination
Curved and united with the vein above
in arc
Flower color
Red flowers
Inflorescence type
Terminal solitary flower
Capitule with tubular and ligulate flowers
Stem pilosity
Less hairy
Stem hair type
Pubescent
Life form
Broadleaf plant
Physiology
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Mantisqalca salmantica is a C3 species.
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Ecology
Algeria: Mantisalca salmantica is an uncommon weed in the annual crops (especially winter cereals and weeds), as indicated by the paucity of vernacular names. It prefers clay-loam soils with good or poor drainage.
Morocco: Mantisalca salmantica is a very common species, found in pastures and open forests in fairly rainy regions, up to 2200 m altitude.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
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Description
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Origin
Mantisalca salmantica is native to the Mediterranean basin and Western Europe.
Worldwide distribution
This species is occasionally found in South Africa and on the south-east coast of Australia.
Algeria: Common throughout the country.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
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Local harmfulness
Algeria: Mantisalca salmantica is a minor "weed". Infrequent and not very abundant, it is not generally a nuisance for cultivation.
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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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References
- Kazi Tani C., Grard P. & Le Bourgeois T., 2021. "AdvenAlg 1.0 Identification et connaissance des principales adventices d'Algérie méditerranéenne." Al Yasmina, Revue de Botanique 2(3): 1-187.
- The World Flora Online https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000082784
- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:231708-1
- Flora Maroccana (Dobignard A.) https://www.floramaroccana.fr/m.-salmantica.html
Information Listing > References
- Kazi Tani C., Grard P. & Le Bourgeois T., 2021. "AdvenAlg 1.0 Identification et connaissance des principales adventices d'Algérie méditerranéenne." Al Yasmina, Revue de Botanique 2(3): 1-187.
- The World Flora Online https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000082784
- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:231708-1
- Flora Maroccana (Dobignard A.) https://www.floramaroccana.fr/m.-salmantica.html
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Asterales |
| Family | Asteraceae |
| Genus | Mantisalca |
| Species | Mantisalca salmantica (L.) Briq. & Cavill. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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