Centaurea benedicta

TaxID: 50282

Basic Information

Centaurea benedicta

Blessed Thistle, blessed thistle

Centaurea benedicta, known by the common names St. Benedict's thistle, blessed thistle, holy thistle, spotted thistle or blessed knapweed, is an annual thistle-like plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Mediterranean Europe and western and Central Asia, ranging from Portugal and Spain to southeastern Europe, Ukraine and southern European Russia, Saudi Arabia, Xinjiang, and Pakistan. It is known in other parts of the world, including parts of North America, as an introduced species and often a noxious weed.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Asterales

Asteraceae

Centaurea

benedicta

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Centaurea benedicta
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(c) James Bailey@BY-NC
Centaurea benedicta
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(c) 2008 Luigi Rignanese@BY-NC
Centaurea benedicta
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(c) Γιώργος Παντάκης@BY-NC
Centaurea benedicta
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(c) Millie Basden@BY
Centaurea benedicta
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(c) zebedeugalinha@BY

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Peru Absent —

Distribution (52 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
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Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Argentina Present —
Armenia Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Belarus Present —
Brazil Present —
Canada Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (6 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
SDH254-14 - rbcLa 552 United States 1967-06-07 33.228, -116.965
MKTRT2037-14 - rbcLa 552 United States 1970-05-13 -
ITSAO4100-14 - ITS2 216 - - -
ITSAF802-14 - ITS2 214 - - -
IBPLT241-24 - trnL-F 407 Portugal 2019-06-05 41.499, -6.636
GBVN2473-11 - matK 965 - - -

Literature