Myopordon pulchellum (Arabic: مِيوبُرْدون ظَريف)[1] is a species of flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae.[2][3]

Myopordon pulchellum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Myopordon
Species:	M. pulchellum
Binomial name
Myopordon pulchellum (C.Winkl. & Barbey) Wagenitz
Synonyms
Autrania pulchella

Description

The plant is sub-acaulescent with a single flowering head, it measures 3 to 5 centimetres (1.2 to 2.0 in). The briefly petiolated leaves are arranged in a rosette around a thick rhizome; the leaves form a sheath around the base. The leaves are appressed, pinnatifid or lyrate and the contour is ovate to lanceolate; both leave faces are canescent with ciliated and spiny margins. The pant's receptacle has silky trichomes. Involucral bracts are canescent and covered with cobweb-like hairs, each bract ends with a single spine. The fruit is a smooth rotund achene with lateral hilum measuring 5 millimetres (0.20 in) long and 1 millimetre (0.039 in) wide surmounted by a white pappus.[2]

Distribution

The plant is endemic to Lebanon.[4][5]

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