Myopordon pulchellumMyopordon pulchellum is a species of flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae.DescriptionThe plant is sub-acaulescent with a single flowering head, it measures. The briefly petiolated leaves are arranged in a rosette around a thick rhizome; the leaves form a sheath around the base. The leaves are Glossary of [botanical terms|appressed], pinnatifid or lyrate and the contour is ovate to lanceolate; both leave faces are canescent with ciliated and spiny margins. The pant's receptacle has silky trichomes. Involucral bracts are canescent and covered with cobweb-like hairs, each bract ends with a single spine. The fruit is a smooth rotund achene with lateral hilum measuring long and wide surmounted by a white pappus.DistributionThe plant is endemic to Lebanon.