Stable identifiers http://herbarium.bgbm.org/object/B100264910
Herbarium # B 10 0264910
Collection # B-Phanerogamae
Stored under taxonname Centaurea virgata Lam.   tropicos
Euro + Med Checklist (B)
GBIF
Family Asteraceae
Det./rev./conf./assigned G. Wagenitz 1969
Ident. history orig. Centaurea squarrosa Willd. var. colensis K. Koch; G. Wagenitz 1969: Centaurea virgata (Variante A in Willdenowia 6:484. 1972)
Typus of Centaurea squarrosa Willd. var. colensis K. Koch
Typified by: P.Hein (B)  2024
Current Name: Centaurea virgata Lam.
Collector wikidata Index of Botanists (HUH) VIAF Koch,K. 1959 (link to CETAF Botany Pilot) 
Date 1843-09-04
Location
Türkiye / Ardahan — 40.685° / 42.78917°
Label 2. Reise nach Kleinasien. Kur/[…] 4/9.43 [1843-09-04]‘
[protologue: ‚im Quellengebiet des Kur, d.i. im Gaue Kjöla, auf Trachyt, ca. 6000‘ hoch‘ [Turkey; Ardahan: Kjöla = Göle (Georgian: კოლა, romanized: k'ola), a small city and the seat of Göle District in Ardahan Province of Turkey]; [Quellgebiet = sources of the Kur = Kura River: ca. 40°41'06"N 42°47'21"E]
; Alt. 1829 m
Habitat
Habitus
Annotations with detailed description.;
type of: Centaurea squarrosa Willd. var. colensis K. Koch in Linnaea 24: 434 (1851);
[see page 222 ff in K. Koch: Wanderungen im Oriente, während der Jahre 1843 und 1844. II: Reise im pontischen Gebirge und türkischen Armenien. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1846]