''Centaurea demirizii'', or Demiriz's centaury, is a herbaceous plant, a member of the family
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae ...
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Distribution
It is an endemic species to
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
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Taxonomy
It was named by
Gerhard Wagenitz Gerhard is a name of Germanic origin and may refer to:
Given name
* Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate
* Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark
* Gerhard Barkhorn (1919– ...
, in 1960.
References
External links
Holotype of Centaurea demirizii Wagenitz - family COMPOSITAEKaryological studies of four endemic Centaurea L. species 2015
* https://www.gbif.org/species/169340637/verbatim
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