Carduus acicularis Bertol., Ann. Storia Nat.

Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Galasso, Gabriele, Domina, Gianniantonio, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Santangelo, Annalisa, Alessandrini, Alessandro, Astuti, Giovanni, D’Antraccoli, Marco, Roma-Marzio, Francesco, Ardenghi, Nicola M. G., Barberis, Giuseppina, Conti, Fabio, Bernardo, Liliana, Peccenini, Simonetta, Stinca, Adriano, Wagensommer, Robert P., Bonari, Gianmaria, Iamonico, Duilio, Iberite, Mauro, Viciani, Daniele, Guacchio, Emanuele Del, Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Villani, Mariacristina, Brunu, Antonello, Magrini, Sara, Pistarino, Annalaura, Brullo, Salvatore & Salmeri, Cristina, 2019, An inventory of the names of native, non-endemic vascular plants described from Italy, their loci classici and types, Phytotaxa 410 (1), pp. 1-215 : 35

Carduus acicularis Bertol., Ann. Storia Nat. 1(2): 274(–275). 1829.

≡ Carduus argentatus L. subsp. acicularis (Bertol.) Meikle, Fl. Cyprus 2: 949, 1897. 1985.

Ind. Loc.:—“in agro Ravennati”. EMR

Type (lectotype designated by Kazmi 1964: 454):— ITALY. Carduus acicularis , 1826, Bertoloni s.n. ( BR). Compiled by:— A. Alessandrini