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Xanthium spinosum

L.
Tracheophyta » Asterales » Asteraceae » Xanthium spinosum
Common name (English)
Spiny cocklebur
Ηabitat
I1 Arable
X10 Mixed landscapes

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Establishment status
Not Established
Establishment status detail

Alien: Casual.

Roadsides, cultivated & waste ground; sea-level to 50' - amongst the sites listed, one is between Kividhes & Limassol in Division 3.

First detection year
1905
Pathway
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Transportation of habitat material – THM
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Contaminant nursery material – CNM
Other notes

as native in Flora of Cyprus but probably just an archaeophyte

References

Meikle RD (1985) Flora of Cyprus, Vol. 2.

Georgiades C (1995) Η επιγενής χλωρίδα της Κύπρου. Ταξινομική, χλωριδικά, φυτογεωγραφική, οικοφυσιολογική μελέτη. [The adventive flora of Cyprus, taxonomic, floristic, phytogeographic, ecophysiological study]. Ph.D. Thesis, Athens University.

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