Cirsium brevicauleA.Gray

WFO wfo-0000081759 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cirsium brevicaule, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2022-03-16 / obs. 190293727
Cirsium brevicaule, photographed by Takaaki Hattori
fig. b Takaaki Hattori, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120928566
Cirsium brevicaule, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. c Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38918089
Cirsium brevicaule, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. d Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39035465
Cirsium brevicaule, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. e Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 20938938
Cirsium brevicaule, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. f Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22999110
Cirsium brevicaule, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. g Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23769538
Cirsium brevicaule, photographed by Takaaki Hattori
fig. h Takaaki Hattori, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64587512

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Cirsium brevicaule is native: Nansei-shoto Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Cirsium brevicaule, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Nansei-shoto NNS ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cirsium brevicaule var. brevicaule
  • Cirsium brevicaule var. oshimense Kitam.
  • Cirsium irumtiense Kitam.
  • Cirsium liukiuense Nakai

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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