Verbascum graecum, Heldr. & Sart. ex Boiss.

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67. V. graecum Heldr. & Sart. ex Boiss. , Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 3(3): 148 (1856).

Biennial, densely white-tomentose below, more or less fioccose and often glabrescent above; stem 40- 150 cm. Basal leaves 5-30 x 3-10 cm, ovate to lanceolate, entire or crenulate; petiole 1-5-10 cm. Inflorescence branched, lax. Bracts 2-4(-10)m m, linear to linear-lanceolate; longer pedicels 2-5(-15)mm. Calyx 2-5 mm; lobes linear-oblong. Corolla 15-30 mm in diameter. Stamens 5; anthers all reniform; filament-hairs white. Capsule 4-7 mm, oblong-cylindrical. • 5. part o f Balkan peninsula.?A1 G r Ju Tu. V. haussknechtii Heldr. ex Hausskn. , M itt. Geogr. Ges. Thür. Jena 5 (Bot. Ver.fi. 71 (1887) ( V. degenii Halâcsy ), from E. & N.E. Greece, and V. dimoniei Velen. , Sitz.-Ber Böhm. Ges. Wiss. (Math.-Nat. Kl.) 1910(8): 10 (1910), from N. Greece, closely resemble 67; the former has more or less glabrescent leaves, the latter has densely glandular bracts and calyx-lobes. Both are best, perhaps, treated as varieties.