Cephalaria leucantha
Species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family
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Cephalaria leucantha is a species of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae.[2]
| Cephalaria leucantha | |
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| Flowers of Cephalaria leucantha at the Civico Orto Botanico di Trieste | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Dipsacales |
| Family: | Caprifoliaceae |
| Genus: | Cephalaria |
| Species: | C. leucantha |
| Binomial name | |
| Cephalaria leucantha (L.) Schrad. ex Roem. & Schult | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
Distribution
This species is present in northern Africa and in southern Europe (Albania, former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain).[4]
History
The species was described as Scabiosa trenta by Belsazar Hacquet in 1782. This resulted in a century-long search by other botanists to find the new species that Hacquet had described in the Julian Alps. It was not until 1893 that the Austrian botanist Anton Kerner von Marilaun determined that Hacquet's species was actually Cephalaria leucantha, which is now extinct in the Julian Alps.[5][6]
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