Centaurea jankae, Brandza

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 : 263

10. C. jankae Brandža , Anal. Acad. Románe ser. 2, 4: 446 (1884).

Perennial. Stems up to 70 cm, often corymbosely branched in upper half. Leaves l(-2)-pinnatisect, petiolate; segments entire, arachnoid-pubescent, glabrescent. Involucre (15-)20 mm in diameter; bracts appressed; appendages entire or lacerate. Florets purple, the outer rather longer than the inner. Achenes c. 3 mm; pappus c. 6 mm. Dry grassland. • S.E. Romania. Rm.

C. crocodylium L., Sp. Pl. 919 (1753), from S.W. Asia, an annual with the lower leaves entire and the upper pinnatisect, long-pedunculate capitula and bracts with hyaline appendages and a long spine, has been recorded, probably in error, from Kriti.