Cyanopsis muricata, (L.) 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 : 253-254

1. C. muricata (L.) Dostál , Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 71: 193 (1976)

( Centaurea muricata L. , Amberboa muricata (L.) DC. ).

Plant arachnoid-hairy; stems up to 50 cm, erect, sulcate; upper branches leafless. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, entire to pinnatipartite, the segments remotely dentate; lower leaves petiolate, the middle sessile, the upper mucronulate at apex and auriculate at base. Capitula up to 5 cm in diameter. Involucre

c. 15 mm in diameter; bracts appressed, villous, the spine up to 5 mm, erect to deflexed, straw-coloured. Florets pink, the outer up to 2 cm. Achenes up to 4 mm; pappus-scales | as long as achene, oblong-lanceolate, with serrulate apex, ivory-white. Roadsides and vineyards. • S. Spain (Màlaga Prov.). Hs.