Centaurium linaeriifolium, (Lam.) G. Beck

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 : 59

9. C. linaeriifolium (Lam.) G. Beck , Fl. Nieder-Österr. 2: 935 (1893)

( Erythraea barrelieri Dufour ).

Biennial 20-40 cm, with a basal leaf-rosette. Stem solitary to several, branched from or above the middle. Rosette-leaves usually 1-5 x 0-3 cm, linearspathulate, indistinctly 3-veined, obtuse; cauline leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, decreasing upwards. Flowers 20-30 mm, numerous, in a lax corymbiform cyme. Calyx | as long as to nearly as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes 10-12 mm, oblongelliptical. 2« = 20. Dry pastures and dry, open habitats; calcicole. • S.E. Spain,?Mallorca.?B1 Hs.