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Echinops niveus Wall. ex Royle

Asteraceae · Nepal, Pakistan +2

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Echinops niveus Wall. ex Royle: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Wall. ex DC.

No habitat climate
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Summary

Echinops niveus is a species in the genus Echinops or globe thistles. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Echinops niveus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Echinops

Echinops is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are distributed from central Asia, Mongolia and north-eastern China to the Mediterranean basin, temperate regions of Eurasia, reaching to Indian subcontinent and tropical Africa. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Echinops", 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 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 3 of the 4 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.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Myanmar · 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).
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 326 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 12359943 (Echinops niveus Wall. ex Royle): Kew's file holds it as Echinops niveus Wall. ex Royle (accepted); 2 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Echinops 15 in the reference

Echinops adenocaulos Echinops adenocaulos Globe thistle Photo: CC BY, Jared LincenbergEchinops bannaticus Echinops bannaticus Blue globe-thistle Photo: CC0, author not statedEchinops cornigerus Echinops cornigerus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Edmundas GreimasEchinops davuricus Echinops davuricus Asteraceae Photo: CC0, prodewaldEchinops echinatus Echinops echinatus Indian globe thistle Photo: CC0, author not statedEchinops exaltatus Echinops exaltatus Globe-thistle Photo: CC BY, Nasser HalawehEchinops grijsii Echinops grijsii Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedEchinops humilis Echinops humilis Dwarf globe-thistle Photo: CC BY, Надежда КостюковаEchinops orientalis Echinops orientalis Oriental Globe Thistle Photo: CC BY, Mikhail NevskyEchinops ossicus Echinops ossicus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Илья РуденкоEchinops pungens Echinops pungens Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Edmundas GreimasEchinops ritro Echinops ritro Southern globethistle Photo: CC BY, Michael Andresek all 16 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Sphaerocephalus niveus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
Wall. ex Royle
Native to
Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya +1
Wild records
4 in range · 3 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 7880458 is Echinops niveus Wall. ex DC.; the page links Kew's Echinops niveus Wall. ex Royle, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records of GBIF's key 12359943, Echinops niveus Wall. ex Royle (Kew's file holds it as Echinops niveus Wall. ex Royle (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its POWO identifier 77181194-1 is Kew's for Echinops niveus Wall. ex Royle
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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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