Andryala levitomentosa, (E. I. Nyarady) P.D. Sell

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 : 358

5. A. levitomentosa (E. I. Nyárády) P.D. Sell , Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 71: 256 (1976)

( Pietrosia levitomentosa E. I. Nyárády ).

Perennial with a woody, often branched stock, covered with the persistent bases of petioles. Stems 6-20 cm, with a tomentum of mainly stellate hairs and longer simple eglandular hairs, and sometimes with a few glandular hairs above. Leaves with a dense tomentum of stellate and simple eglandular hairs; basal numerous, 10-100 x 10-25 mm, suborbicular to broadly elliptical, obtuse to subacute, entire or with 1-4 small teeth, attenuate at base into a winged petiole; cauline 1-4, linear. Capitulum l(-2). Involucre 10-15 x 15-20 mm; bracts lanceolate, acute, with dense stellate hairs and dense, longer, simple eglandular hairs. Achenes c. 1-5 mm, obconical, with a 2-rimmed disc at the apex. Receptacle with laciniate scales enfolding the florets. Mountain cliffs, 1600-1700 m. • E. Carpathians (Pietrosul Brostenilor). Rm.