Cousinia
Genus of flowering plants
The genus Cousinia of the tribe Cardueae is in its current circumscription one of the larger genera in the Asteraceae, with approximately 650-700 described species distributed in central and western Asia.
Many of the species in this genus were once classified in genus Arctium (the burdocks).
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- Cousinia Pterocaulos, 2010.jpg by C T Johansson, CC BY 3.0
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