Verbascum mallophorum, 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 : 214

69. V. mallophorum Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. l(lfi. 39 (1846).

Biennial, persistently white-tomentose below, fioccose and more or less glabrescent above. Basal leaves 15-45 x 5-15 cm, obovate-oblong, entire; petiole short or absent. Cauline leaves not decurrent. Inflorescence freely branched, moderately dense. Bracts 4-7 mm, linear; longer pedicels 3-7 mm. Calyx 2-5-4 mm; lobes linear, acute. Corolla 15- 30 mm in diameter. Stamens 5; anthers all reniform; filamenthairs violet. Capsule 4-6 mm, cylindrical. • C. & S. Italy; C. & S. Greece, S. Albania. Al G r It.