''Centaurea leptophylla'', the thin-leaved centaury, is a flowering plant in the family
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
. The IUCN has classified the species as
critically endangered. It is native to Turkey.
Taxonomy
It was named by
Karl Koch in ''Linnaea'' 24: 419 in 1851.
References
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leptophylla