Xanthium orientale L., 1763
Common names
- 🇫🇷 Lampourde d’Orient, Lampourde à gros fruits
Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Angiosperms
- Clade: Eudicots
- Clade: Superasterids
- Clade: Asterids
- Clade: Campanulids
- Order: Asterales
- Family: Asteraceae
- Subfamily: Asteroideae
- Tribe: Heliantheae
- Subtribe: Ambrosiinae
- Genus: Xanthium
- Species: Xanthium orientale
Presence
Introduced.
Conservation status
- Red List (Metropolitan France): NA Not Applicable
Notes
Possible confusion with X. strumarium L., 1753, which has 12-18 mm long fruits, while X. orientale has 20-30 mm long fruits.
The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:
- X. orientale var. albinum (Widder) Adema & M.T.Jansen, 1979;
- X. orientale var. italicum (Moretti) M.Hassl., 2022, I (het. syn. X. orientale subsp. italicum (Moretti) Greuter, 2003);
- X. orientale var. orientale L., 1763, I (het. syn. X. orientale subsp. orientale L., 1763);
- X. orientale var. riparium (Čelak.) Adema & M.T.Jansen, 1979, D (het. syn. X. orientale subsp. riparium (Čelak.) Greuter, 2003);
- X. orientale var. saccharatum (Wallr.) M.Hassl., 2022, I (het. syn. X. orientale subsp. saccharatum (Wallr.) B.Bock, 2012).
Photographs
Sources
- Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 523). Biotope.