Code
ATKGU
Growth form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Vivacious (H) or rhizome geophyte (Grh).
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Acarna gummifera (L.) Willd. |
| synonym | Acarna macrocephala Willd. |
| synonym | Atractylis acaulis Pers. |
| synonym | Atractylis gummifera L. |
| synonym | Atractylis macrocephala Desf. |
| synonym | Atractylis nemotoiana Arènes |
| synonym | Carlina fontanesii DC. |
| synonym | Carlina gummifera (L.) Less. |
| synonym | Carlina macrocephala Less. |
| synonym | Carthamus gummiferus (L.) Lam. |
| synonym | Cirsellium gummiferum (L.) Brot. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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Global description
Adult plant
Chamaeleon gummifer is a vivacious plant in rosette, from 5 to 20 cm in height, without stem, with swivelling root, powerful, with latex, poisonous. Leaves in rosette, remaining in place after drying, simple, oblong, 15-40 x 5-12 cm, pennatilobed, with 5-8 pairs of lobes themselves lobulated and with spiny tip, blade long attenuated in pseudo-petiole sheathing at the base. Inflorescence a large capitulum with florets all tubular, rose-purple, 4-7 cm in diameter, usually solitary. Involucre with several rows of linear-lanceolate bracts terminating in a strong apical spine and smaller lateral spines, covered with short, tight to long, web-like hairs. Florets all tubular 4-8 cm long terminating in 5 long linear lobes far exceeding the involucre of bracts. Achenes 7-12 x 1-2 cm, somewhat club-shaped, covered with bristles.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Vivacious
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Algeria: Chamaeleon gummifer germinates at spring and flowers from June to September.
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Reproduction
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Chamaeleon gummifer reproduces by seed.
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Morphology
Growth form
Rosette
Leaf arrangement
Verticillate
Leaf type
Simple
Latex
White latex
Root type
Taproot
Stipule type
No stipule
Leaf attachment type
with petiole
Fruit type
Achene
Achene type
Achene with plumose pappus
Lamina base
attenuate
Lamina margin
irregular
Lamina apex
acuminate
Upperface pilosity
Glabrous
Lowerface pilosity
Glabrous
Simple leaf type
Lamina deeply lobed
Lamina section
curved
Lamina Veination
pennate
Flower color
Pinkish
Purple
Inflorescence type
Capitule with tubular flowers
Life form
Broadleaf plant
Physiology
Chamaeleon gummifer is a C3 species.
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Ecology
Algeria: Chamaeleon gummifer is a rare species in the edges of fields and in certain badly maintained olive groves of the Tell. Preference for the rather sandy soft soils.
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Miscellaneous Details
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Toxicity
Chamaeleon gummifer is a toxic species for animals (sheep, goats). The odorous root contains a toxic principle, a diterpenic heteroside, the carboxy-atracyloside, which provokes a pronounced hypoglycemia, an elevation of the uremia, the creatinemia, the transaminases, while the rate of prothrombin falls. Death occurs rapidly by respiratory arrest. The treatment can only be symptomatic, and generally is ineffective. The root was employed during the Middle Ages by the Islamic-Berber kingdoms of the Maghreb in the political assassinations.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Description
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Origin
Chamaeleon gummifer is native to the Mediterranean basin.
Algeria: Common species in all the Tell.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
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Local harmfulness
Algeria: Chamaeleon gummifer is a minor "weed". Uncommon and not very abundant, it does not generally constitute a nuisance for the crop.
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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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References
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:192416-1
- Kazi Tani C., Grard P. & Le Bourgeois T., 2021. "AdvenAlg 1.0 Identification et connaissance des principales adventices d'Algérie méditerranéenne." Al Yasmina, Revue de Botanique 2(3): 1-187.
Information Listing > References
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:192416-1
- Kazi Tani C., Grard P. & Le Bourgeois T., 2021. "AdvenAlg 1.0 Identification et connaissance des principales adventices d'Algérie méditerranéenne." Al Yasmina, Revue de Botanique 2(3): 1-187.
Images
Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT : https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Chamaeleon%2520gummifer
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Asterales |
| Family | Asteraceae |
| Genus | Chamaeleon |
| Species | Chamaeleon gummifer (L.) Cass. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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