Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Onopordum majorii
Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Onopordum majorii Beauverd , legitimate, scientific
Beauverd, G. (1914), Trois nouvelles Carduinees de la flore d'Orient. Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de Geneve 6(5): 152 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Hab. — Insula Ikaria in monte Atheras, 26 julio 1887, leg. Forsyth Major (Plantae a cl. Dre Forsyth Major in insulis Archipelagi auspice W. Barbey lectae, No 791)."
Michael, P.W. (2016), A prickly history - two new Onopordum species in our list of aliens. A Good Weed: Newsletter of The Weed Society of New South Wales Inc 73: 11-12 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "...named after Charles Immanuel Forsyth-Major who collected it in 1887..."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Onopordum majori Beauverd orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised)