Gypsophila acutifolia, Steven ex Sprengel

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 183

20. G. acutifolia Steven ex Sprengel , Novi Provent. 21 (1819).

Stems 20-170 cm, erect, branched, glabrous below, glandularpubescent above. Leaves 20-80 x 2-10 mm, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, long-acuminate. Inflorescence a rather dense panicle; pedicels 1-4 mm, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. Calyx 3- 3- 5 mm; teeth oblong, acuminate. Petals twice as long as calyx, white. Seeds with long, acute, conical tubercles. Possibly native in Ukraine; naturalized in Romania; an occasional casual elsewhere.?Rs (W) [Rm]. (Caucasus.) G. scariosa Tausch , Flora (Regensb.) 14: 213 (1831), from S.E. Switzerland (Septimer Pass, Albula Alpen), has not been collected since 1866 and is probably extinct. It is like 20 but the leaves are 80-110 x 3-5 mm, linear-lanceolate and long-acuminate; the pedicels are glabrous and shorter than the calyx; the calyx is 4-5 mm, with lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate teeth; and the petals are white and not more than 11 times as long as the calyx.