Eryngium cervantesii Delar.

Eryngium cervantesii Delar. f. Eryng. 47. 1808
Eryngium viviparum Cerv.; Delar. f. Eryng. 47, as syn. 1808. Not E. viviparum Gay. 1848.
Low, caulescent, branching, glabrous perennials, 6-15 cm. high, the stems numerous, procumbent; basal leaves linear to narrowly spatulate, 2-4 cm. long, 1-4 mm. broad, remotely serrate to shallowly lobed, the venation pinnately reticulate; petioles slender, sheathing at the base, 0.5-2 cm. long, about equaling the blades; cauline leaves short-petiolate or sessile, 3-lobed or 3-5-palmately lobed or similar to the basal and fascicled; inflorescence a monochasium with small, short-pedunculate heads solitary in the axils, often subtended by fascicles of leaves; heads globose, 3-6 mm. in diameter; bracts 5-6, rigid, spreading-ascending, lanceolate, 3-12 mm. long, pungent, entire, usually longer than the heads; bractlets like the bracts but scariousdilated at the base, 3-4 mm. long, slightly exceeding the flowers and fruit; coma wanting; sepals ovate, about 1 mm. long, obtuse, apiculate; petals oval, about 0.5 mm. long; styles slender, exceeding the sepals; fruit ovoid, 2-3 mm. long, the calycine scales ovate, up to 1 mm. long, the dorsal and lateral linear, attenuate, about equally long.
Type locality: Mexico, Sesse &" Mocino 1486.
Distribution: Hidalgo to Michoacan (Gregg 806. Schumann 677).

Eryngium cervantesii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa tán. Loài này được F.Delaroche mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1808.