Plant Details

Accepted name:: Centaurea benedicta var. benedicta [Asteraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Centaurea benedicta (L.) L.
Infraspecies:: Centaurea benedicta var. kotschyi (Sch.Bip.) Ghaz.

No non-scientific names for this plant in the MPNS resource.

Kew's taxonomic resources include 13 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Carbenia benedicta Adans. Fam. Pl. 2: 116 (1763).
Carduus benedictus Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 151 (1821), not validly publ.
Carduus benedictus Garsault Fig. Pl. Méd. 2: 133 (1764), not validly publ.
Benedicta officinalis Bernh. Syst. Verz. Erf.: 159 (1800).
Centaurea centriflora Friv. ex Gugler Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 6: 215 (1908), not validly publ.
Centaurea pseudobenedicta E.H.L.Krause in J.W.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. 14: 24 (1906).
Cnicus benedictus var. kostchyi Boiss. Fl. Orient. 3: 706 (1875).
Cnicus benedictus var. microcephalus Boiss. Fl. Orient. 3: 705 (1875).
Cnicus bulgaricus Panov Fitologiya 48: 9 (1996).
Cnicus microcephalus Boiss. Fl. Orient. 3: 705 (1875).
Cnicus pseudobenedictus Asch. Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1861: 5 (1861).
Epitrachys microcephala K.Koch Linnaea 24: 402 (1851).
Hierapicra benedicta Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 347 (1891).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Carbenia benedicta Adams	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Carduus benedictus	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Carduus benedictus Steud.	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Centaurea benedicta var. benedicta	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)

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