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Karvandarina aphylla is a woody subshrub in the daisy family, native to dry hills and desert edges of southwestern and southern Iran and southwestern Pakistan. It is a wild species with no established horticultural cultivation, so it is grown only by specialist collectors or botanic gardens.
Karvandarina aphylla is a species of flowering plant in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae, native to Iran and Pakistan. It was first described in 1950.
It is an erect, 60-70 cm tall, woody herb. Stem much branched, basally whitish villous, green-glabrous above. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 10-20 cm long, 4-7 mm wide, fragile, glabrous, pale to green, sinuate-serrate, tooth prolonged into 1-3 mm long spinules. Capitula solitary, terminal. Flowers pink.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
