Centaurea attica subsp. pentelica, (Hausskn.) Dostal

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 275

(f) Subsp. pentelica (Hausskn.) Dostál , loc. cit. (1976)

( C. pentelica Hausskn. ):

Leaves greenish, with somewhat arachnoid indumentum; segments narrowly lanceolate. Involucre 12 x 6-7 mm; appendages with erect apical spine 3 mm, without auricles. Pappus c. I as long as achene. S.E. Greece (mountains around Athinai).

C. poculatoris W. Greuter , Bauhinia 3: 252 (1967), from crevices of calcareous rocks in W. Kriti (Aspéndos), has not been collected in flower or fruit but appears to be a distinct species related to 102; it is a perennial, with procumbent stems 5-10 cm, leaves white-floccose-tomentose at least beneath but more or less glabrescent, the basal sinuate-pinnatifid to pinnatisect with ovate to suborbicular segments and the upper subentire, solitary capitula with involucre 12-16x 6-8 mm, and pectinate-ciliate appendages with a slender, erect apical spine.