Verbascum delphicum, Boiss. & Heldr.

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 : 215

80. V. delphicum Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 3(3): 146 (1856).

Biennial; stem 50-150 cm, more or less white-tomentose. Basal leaves 6-30 x 4-15 cm, ovate, crenate to subentire, rounded to cordate at base, sparsely hairy or subglabrous above, densely whitish-tomentose beneath; petiole 5-15 cm. Inflorescence simple or branched, fairly dense. Bracts 4-10 mm, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate; longer pedicels 4- 7 mm. Calyx 3-5 mm; lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla 15- 20 mm in diameter. Stamens 5; anthers all reniform; filamenthairs white. Capsule 3-5 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid. • E. Greece. Gr.