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Centaurea akamantis; photograph (c) Robert Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Robert Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2023-11-15

Centaurea akamantis T.Georgiadis & Hadjik.

Akamas Centaury

Asteraceae · Cyprus

No habitat climate
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Summary

Centaurea akamantis, the Akamas centaurea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to Cyprus, where it is found in three localities on the Akamas Peninsula in western Cyprus. Its total range measures around seven square kilometres, of which less than one square kilometre is inhabited by the plant. The species inhabits steep, shaded, humid limestone cliffs that have other vegetation growing in the crevices. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Centaurea akamantis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Centaurea

Centaurea is a genus of over 700 species of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus are found only north of the equator, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere; the Middle East and surrounding regions are particularly species-rich.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Centaurea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 27 of the 29 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCyprus · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker34.923, 32.34 · in the densest population, 29 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 29 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 6 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 15 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 27 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 29 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Ruslan Salimgareev, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) Robert Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Centaurea 67 in the reference

Centaurea achtarovii Asteraceae Centaurea alba Centaurea alba Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Teo AlbertCentaurea ambigua Centaurea ambigua Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozCentaurea aplolepa Centaurea aplolepa Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Andrea MologniCentaurea aspera Centaurea aspera Rough star-thistle Photo: CC0, author not statedCentaurea atropurpurea Centaurea atropurpurea Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Yves Bas Centaurea axillaris Asteraceae Centaurea babylonica Centaurea babylonica Syrian knapweed Photo: CC BY-SA, Serdar ÖlezCentaurea barrasii Centaurea barrasii Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizCentaurea benedicta Centaurea benedicta Blessed thistle Photo: CC BY, Orzigul AnvarovaCentaurea calcitrapa Centaurea calcitrapa Red star-thistle Photo: CC0, author not statedCentaurea calocephala Centaurea calocephala Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Jeff Clark all 68 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
T.Georgiadis & Hadjik.
Native to
Cyprus
Wild records
29 in range · 6 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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