Lomelosia rotata(M.Bieb.) Greuter & Burdet

WFO wfo-0000359368 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Lomelosia rotata, photographed by Edmundas Greimas
fig. a Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-27 / obs. 145785935
Lomelosia rotata, photographed by Edmundas Greimas
fig. b Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145315681
Lomelosia rotata, photographed by Edmundas Greimas
fig. c Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145785793
Lomelosia rotata, photographed by Edmundas Greimas
fig. d Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145316688
Lomelosia rotata, photographed by Edmundas Greimas
fig. e Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145785960
Lomelosia rotata, photographed by Edmundas Greimas
fig. f Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145316670

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Lomelosia rotata is native: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Albania, Bulgaria, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen. AfghanistanIranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanAlbaniaBulgariaKrymNW. Balkan Pen.
Native distribution of Lomelosia rotata, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG

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 9 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.

  • Asterocephalus brevicomus Jord. & Fourr.
  • Asterocephalus lobatus Jord. & Fourr.
  • Asterocephalus polytomus Jord. & Fourr.
  • Asterocephalus rotatus (M.Bieb.) Spreng.
  • Scabiosa anatolica Boiss.
  • Scabiosa linifolia K.Koch
  • Scabiosa porphyrostephana Boiss.
  • Scabiosa rotata M.Bieb.
  • Trochocephalus rotatus (M.Bieb.) Á.Löve & D.Löve

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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