Centaurea chrysolepis, Vis.

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28. C. chrysolepis Vis. , Mem. 1st. Veneto 9: 172 (1860).

Stems 30-60 cm, simple, or with few short branches. Leaves glabrous; basal lanceolate, entire; lower cauline pinnatisect with narrowly oblong to lanceolate, entire segments. Involucre 25-40 mm in diameter, globose; bracts ovate, fully covered by the appendages; appendages c. 13 mm, triangular-lanceolate, straw-yellow, gradually attenuate into an apical spine; fimbriae c. 3 mm. Florets pale yellow, the outer as long as the inner. Achenes puberulent; pappus about as long as achene, brownish. Mountain rocks. • C. & S. Jugoslavia, S. W. Bulgaria. Bu Ju.