Rhinanthus freynii

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 280

24. R. freynii (A. Kerner ex Sterneck) Fiori , Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. nov. ser., 19: 576 (1912)

( Alectorolophus freynii A. Kerner ex Sterneck ).

Stem up to 60 cm, simple or branched, hairy, without black streaks. Leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, crenate-serrate. Bracts rhombic-triangular, puberulent; basal teeth scarcely longer than the others. Calyx densely puberulent-velutinous with eglandular, unicellular hairs. Corolla c. 20 mm; tube slightly curved. • N. Italy, N. W. Jugoslavia. It Ju.

Ecotypic variants:

Autumnal: Alectorolophus sterneckii Wettst. , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 47: 357 (1897).

Aestival: R. freynii subsp. croaticus Soó , Feddes Repert. 26: 196 (1929).

Vernal: type of the species.

Montane: R. bellunensis Chab. , Allgem. Bot. Zeitschr. 14: 37 (1908). R. helenae Chab. ex Pamp. , Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. nov. ser., 14: 606 (1907), from the S. Alps (around Trento), is like 24, but with strongly and abruptly curved corolla-tube and throat of corolla more or less open. Its systematic position is doubtful.