Flavonoid compounds of Lamyropsis cynaroides.

Lamyropsis (Charadze) Dittrich (Asteraceae) was erected to generic rank and clearly de"ned by Dittrich (1971). It is a member of tribe Cardueae Cass. subtribe Carduinae Dumort. and most closely related to the genera Cirsium and Ptilostemon. It currently comprises a total of 8 perennial species distributed from S Europe eastwards to Central Asia (Bremer, 1994). The morphological links of the genus with other genera of Carduinae and the isolated occurrence of its representatives were considered as evidence for a rather primitive position in the subtribe (Greuter and Dittrich, 1973). Lamyropsis cynaroides (Lam.) Dittrich is a spiny herb known from the South part of Greek mainland, the Aegean Islands and S. Anatolia. The material of the species (aerial parts) used in this study was collected from the region of Tripolis (Peloponnisos) on May 1993. A voucher specimen has been kept in the Herbarium of Patras University (UPA) under the number Skaltsa and Lazari 102.