Amberboa is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae, described as a genus in 1832.Lessing, Christian Friedrich. 1832. Synopsis generum compositarum earumque dispositionis novae tentamen, monographis multarum Capensium interjectis 8 in LatinTropicos, Amberboa (Pers.) Less.
Species in this genus are native to central and southwestern Asia.Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 186 珀菊属 po ju shu Amberboa Vaillant, Königl. Akad. Wiss. Paris. 5: 182. 1754.
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Amberboa amberboi (L.) Tzvelev - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Armenia Amberboa bucharica Iljin - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran Amberboa glauca (Puschk. ex Willd.) Muss.Puschk. ex Grossh. - Caucasus, Iran, Turkey Amberboa moschata (L.) DC. - Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Iraq Amberboa nana (Boiss.) Iljin - Altai, Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Kazakhstan Amberboa odorata (Cass.) DC. Amberboa ramosa (Roxb.) Jafri - India, Pakistan, Afghanistan Amberboa sosnovskyi Iljin - Caucasus, Iran Amberboa turanica Iljin - Russia, Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, Xinjiang, Pakistan, Afghanistan
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