Carduus pycnocephalus

TaxID: 143180

Basic Information

Carduus pycnocephalus

Italian plumeless thistle, Slender Thistle

Carduus pycnocephalus, with common names including Italian thistle, Italian plumeless thistle, and Plymouth thistle, is a species of thistle. It is native to the Mediterranean region in southern Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia; Eastern Europe and the Caucasus; and the Indian subcontinent. The plant has become an introduced species in other regions, and on other continents, often becoming a noxious weed or invasive species.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Asterales

Asteraceae

Carduus

pycnocephalus

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Don Loarie@BY
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(c) gquintana23@BY-NC
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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 (2 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Brazil A1 list 2018
Peru Absent —

Distribution (54 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_042919555.1 Scaffold 2671 18811 99674 -

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR29420473 seedling leaves not collected - 38866315 USA:California

DNA Barcodes (7 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
SDH251-14 - rbcLa 552 United States 1989-06-13 33.173, -117.16
IBPLT398-24 - trnL-F 407 Portugal 2019-06-01 -
IBPLT060-24 - trnL-F 407 Portugal 2019-05-02 41.67007, -6.82128
GBVN2305-11 - matK 959 - - -
GBITS11994-21 - ITS 793 Italy 2015-05-21 -
GBITS11993-21 - ITS 631 - - -
GBITS11992-21 - ITS 667 - - -

Literature