
Spiny Starwort
Genus
General: Pallenis (perhaps from Gr. palea, chaff, due to its
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Pallenis is a small genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. The name is derived from palea (chaff), referring to the chaffy receptacle.
This is primarily a Mediterranean genus, occurring in desert and coastal habitats of Southern Europe, North Africa, the Canary Islands and the Middle East. The range of one species extends eastward into Central Asia.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).