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List of Cirsium species

List of Cirsium species is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of Cirsium species rather than just read about it. In short: The following species in the flowering plant genus Cirsium, the plume thistles, are accepted by Plants of the World Online. A 2022 molecular study reassigned many species to other genera, but Cirsium remains a speciose genus.

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Reference excerpt

The following species in the flowering plant genus Cirsium, the plume thistles, are accepted by Plants of the World Online. A 2022 molecular study reassigned many species to other genera, but Cirsium remains a speciose genus. Already as a result of the genetic study Ackerfield et al. 2020, Cirsium and Carduus were determined to be polyphyletic in their current circumscriptions, suggesting to either "consolidate all taxa into one large genus (Carduus or Cirsium)," or "recognize each major clade as a genus (Carduus, Cirsium, Eriolepis, Notobasis, Picnomon, Silybum, and Tyrimnus)". Bureš et al. 2023 examined ploidy, genome length, morphological similarity and other lines of evidence, reaching a similar conclusion; whereas the former study referred to a broader range of genera by the term "Carduus–Cirsium group", the latter was published on the heels of the separation of Lophiolepis and Epitrachys from Cirsium, so the focused shifted to their surprising result of Carduus and Tirymnus being nested within Cirsium. Since further genetic evidence is needed to resolve the intergeneric relationships of the Carduinae, this list will be restricted to species in the current genus Cirsium.

North American section

Section Cephalonoplos (Neck.) DC.

Section Cirsium

incertae sedis Cirsium × affine Tausch Cirsium × ambiguum All. Cirsium × ausserdorferi Hausm. ex Treuinf. Cirsium × bifrons Arv.-Touv. Cirsium × bourgaeanum Willk. Cirsium × braun-blanquetianum Lawalrée Cirsium × candolleanum Nägeli Cirsium dissectum (L.) Hill Cirsium × dominii M.Schulze Cirsium filipendulum Lange Cirsium × forsteri (Sm.) Loudon Cirsium × kornhuberi Heimerl Cirsium × muellneri Beck Cirsium × murrianum Khek Cirsium × praealpinum Beck Cirsium × purpureum All. Cirsium × semidecurrens DC. Cirsium × siegertii Sch.Bip. ex Reichardt Cirsium × silesiacum Sch.Bip. Cirsium × sudae E.Michálk. & Bureš Cirsium tuberosum (L.) All. Cirsium × tataricum (L.) DC. Cirsium × vivantii L.Villar, Segarra, J.López, Pérez-Coll. & Catalán Cirsium × wankelii Reichardt Cirsium × wettsteinii Petr. Cirsium × wiedermannii Khek Cirsium × woronowii Petr.

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of List of Cirsium species

In research: List of Cirsium species appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses List of Cirsium species in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: List of Cirsium species is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Cirsium, Lists of plant species, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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